Apply red teaming (adversarial penetration testing) to expose vulnerabilities in assessment integrity¶

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Description¶

The article recommends translating an approach from cybersecurity: "'Red teaming' (PWC, 2024) involves applying an adversarial lens to an organisation whereby a group of people try to hack or break into a process or system, such as the integrity of assessment hence of qualifications". Such ethical hacking or penetration testing helps expose vulnerabilities and reveal areas in need of development, and by moving beyond entrenched thinking seeks to close the gap between prevailing practice and policy and emerging or frontier threats and opportunities. It is positioned as part of multifaceted approaches to cultivating integrity and technology literacy education.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A group of people applying an adversarial lens to the assessment process or system

Constraints¶

• Fittingly given the nature of the risk, the approach is translated from the field of cybersecurity

Target Learners¶

• higher education students
• university staff and governance bodies

Target Learning Goals¶

• academic integrity
• assessment security

Related Strategies¶

• Reform academic governance through interventions on governance architectures, people, and technologies/resources

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Hamish Coates, Gwilym Croucher, Angel Calderon. (2025). Governing Academic Integrity: Ensuring the Authenticity of Higher Thinking in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence. Journal of Academic Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-025-09639-7