GenAI-era assessment reform should move beyond defensive approaches focused primarily on preventing misconduct or detecting AI use¶
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q1 i? The paper argues that assessment reform in the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) era should move beyond defensive approaches focused primarily on preventing misconduct or detecting AI use. → Eliana Khoury & Xiaoyan Ma 2026
Evidence¶
Eliana Khoury & Xiaoyan Ma 2026¶
Eliana Khoury & Xiaoyan Ma. (2026). AI Agents, Joyful Assessment, and Third Space: Rethinking Assessment in the GenAI Era. Journal of Teaching and Learning, 20(4). https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v20i4.11850
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The paper's opening thesis, advanced as a conceptual argument about assessment design rather than as a tested result: reform in the GenAI era "should move beyond defensive approaches focused primarily on preventing misconduct or detecting AI use".
"This paper argues that assessment reform in the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) era should move beyond defensive approaches focused primarily on preventing misconduct or detecting AI use."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- AI agents designed for specific educational purposes can support joyful assessment by creating low-stakes opportunities for practice, feedback, reflection, personalization, and multimodal demonstration of learning — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Existing GenAI assessment frameworks (traffic light, two-lane, AIAS) remain broad, lack discipline-specific applicability, and are unvalidated in authentic settings — related
- Existing reflection models lack strategies to manage challenges introduced by GenAI — related
- Educators struggled to reliably differentiate student-written from GenAI-generated reflections — related
- Minority of undergraduate health science students reported using GenAI for reflective writing, mostly to support rather than replace reflection — related
- Substantial proportions of students self-report cheating and misconduct during exams, with higher rates in high schools than colleges — related
- GenAI-era ICT assessment reform requires a whole-of-institution transformation across seven sequential themes — related
- GenAI is argued to create an opportunity to move assessment away from sorting and ranking students toward recognising diverse ways of knowing — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- AI humanizer websites recontextualize detection evasion by deleting misconduct terms and substituting euphemisms like 'humanize' and 'improve flow' — related
- Detection-oriented integrity approaches are increasingly misaligned with GenAI-augmented assessment (theoretical argument) — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
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GenAI-era assessment reform should move beyond defensive approaches focused primarily on preventing misconduct or detecting AI use |
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GenAI-era assessment reform should move beyond defensive approaches focused primarily on preventing misconduct or detecting AI use |
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