Require process transparency artefacts: process logs, prompt records, reflective commentaries and oral defences¶

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Description¶

The paper recommends that students submit "process logs, AI prompt records, or other “behind the scenes” artefacts alongside the final output", so educators can see how students engaged with tools and exercised judgement. Short reflective commentaries explain key decisions and justify tool use with explicit criteria for depth, criticality and ethical awareness. Oral defences, annotated portfolios, or recorded walkthroughs assess reasoning in real time, mirroring professional practices such as pitching and peer review.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Reflection must be integrated into assessment design with explicit criteria, not treated as an afterthought

Constraints¶

• In large cohorts, adding process logs, reflective commentaries or oral defences may appear impractical; the authors suggest embedding these into existing formats rather than creating wholly new tasks

Target Learners¶

• higher education students

Target Learning Goals¶

• making reasoning and decision-making visible
• metacognitive reflection
• justification of AI tool use

Related Strategies¶

• Institutional safeguards for safe, transparent AI use in assessment
• Assess process over product using staged, connected tasks with iterative evidence
• Replace detector-centred assessment with a four-stage process-oriented model: declared starting point, versioned drafting, process artefacts, and targeted oral verification
• Redesign assessment so fluency is not enough: process logs, staged drafts, in-class composition, and oral defences
• Assessment design levers that make learning visible and reduce the payoff from generic generated text
• Use weekly oral code review interviews to incentivize students to understand AI-assisted code
• Establish prompting principles of neutrality, consistency, transparency, and reflexivity in oral assessment
• Pair the AI chat with a paper worksheet that records what the chat cannot: sketches, agreed group statements and a short reflection

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Kickbusch, S., Ashford-Rowe, K., Kemp, A., Boreland, J., & Huijser, H. (2025). Beyond Detection: Redesigning Authentic Assessment in an AI-Mediated World. Education Sciences, 15(11), 1537. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15111537