Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師): PolyU EDC Webinar – Designing Assessments in the GenAI Era

2026年6月24日星期三

PolyU EDC Webinar – Designing Assessments in the GenAI Era

PolyU Educational Development Centre (EDC) arranged a webinar entitled “Designing Assessments in the GenAI Era” on 24 Jun 2026. In the beginning, Dr. Dawn Lo briefed the intended learning outcomes (ILO) in the GenAI Era.

Dr. Julia Chen gave an introduction about impacts of GenAI on assessment including academic integrity and trustworthiness. She quoted a study of comparing the maths exam and practice results with and without GenAI practice.

She mentioned the development of GenAI assessment since 2023 and to setup teacher and student GenAI Guidelines. She proposed to make learning visible.

Then Dr. Dawn Lo discussed why we need to rethink and redesign assessment. Assessment is a systematic process of collecting and documenting information about student performance and achievement. She mentioned three purposes of assessment including formative, summative and diagnostic.

The key features of quality assessment included validity, reliability, academic integrity and assessment security.

Dr. Dawn Lo pointed out some challenges associated with students’ use of GenAI in assessment.

After that Mr. Leo Chon discussed six major approaches of embracing GenAI in assessment. Firstly, he stated the approach 1 that from written description to multimodal explanation and application. He asked students to apply what they learn in class to analyze a certain real-life situation that student cannot easily copy the content from GenAI.

And then he demonstrated some examples using multimodal work under green construction technology and video project.

For green construction technology, he proposed to use human insight plus AI insight to do the green design.

In approach 3 from presentation of ideas to defense of views that it needed to redesign oral presentation to give more time for defense.

After that Dr. Dawn Lo discussed approach 6 for assessing GenAI-related competency including knowledge, application, evaluation and AI ethics.

Finally, she concluded to design effective and authentic assessments, educators should align activities with learning outcomes, test tasks using GenAI tools, provide clear student guidelines and regularly review, as well as, update the assessment design.