Faculty Forum - November 15, 2024 - Authentic Assessment and Generative AI
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On Friday, November 15th,
Academic Technology Services hosted a Faculty Forum on
authentic assessments in the age of GenAI.
Professor Jay Stachowicz from Evolution and Ecology, winner of the most recent UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement, has raised some compelling concerns regarding encouraging and maintaining academic integrity in students completing research papers and take-home exams. Participants in our Faculty Forum followed his lead into a conversation about guiding our students towards mastery in course content when many of them are frequently choosing also to be guided by ChatGPT.
We were joined by Professor Stachowicz and by Marilyn Derby, Associate Director of the UC Davis Office of Student Support and Judicial Affairs.
Selected resources / links shared during the event
- Student learning outcomes
- About Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Useful language for changing the language of learning objectives to match higher order thinking like creativity vs. recall
- https://ue.ucdavis.edu/educational-objectives-students
- Schedule a consultation with an Education Specialist at the Center for Educational Effectiveness: https://cee.ucdavis.edu/learning-teaching/consultations
- Schedule a consultation with an instructional designer, email instructionaldesign@ucdavis.edu
- Syllabus / policy statements on GenAI
- Here’s the best syllabus statement I’ve see which includes guidance on when it is and isn’t appropriate to use AI in a student’s work - Dr. Torrey Trust’s AI Syllabus Policy Statement
- “University Policies on Generative AI” [padlet.com]. Links to Gen AI policy pages on many universities around the world. Also links to sample syllabus statements and a few articles.
- “Classroom Policies for AI Generative Tools” [docs.google.com] by Lance Eaton - collection of many, many class policies submitted by instructors, including some proposed ways to cite ChatGPT
- “Course Policies related to ChatGPT and other AI Tools” [docs.google.com] - a sample of how one might address ChatGPT in course policies / syllabus - by Joel Gladd, PhD, College of Western Idaho
- GenAI in language learning: Check out this previous presentation - I thought there were some great suggestions.
- Tor Cross’ SITT 2024 talk: “Using GenAI to Support Learning: Reading Empirical Articles”
- Here’s one way our librarians work with faculty
- Environmental impact of GenAI
- The environmental impact of GenAI was mentioned earlier: 2/20/2024 - “Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret” [nature.com] by Kate Crawford. “We need pragmatic actions to limit AI’s ecological impacts now.” “The full planetary costs of generative AI are closely guarded corporate secrets.” A bill has been introduced to start to address this.
- Recent story on how various tech giants are so hungry to energy for their AI that they’re opening up nuclear power plants
- Watch the recording of Cam Hostinar’s talk about considering the whole student
- From made-up citations to made-up articles - critical evaluation of what’s generated by AI is a must
- Some assessment security resources:
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