Disrupt the performative assessment cycle through structural assessment reform rather than technological solutionism¶

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Description¶

The article argues that humanizer services are a diagnostic signal of a feedback loop in which assessment demands, student behavior, and commercial services are mutually implicated, and that "disrupting this cycle must be achieved through structural assessment reform, rather than technological solutionism." New detection or evasion tools may not interrupt the loop because each layer is inhabited by commercial interests with no structural incentive to do so. The recommendation follows from the authors' structural analysis rather than from a tested intervention.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Reform must address the structural underpinnings of educational assessment, not add new tools

Constraints¶

• The article did not test any reform intervention; the recommendation is an interpretive argument from the analysis

Target Learners¶

• higher education students

Target Learning Goals¶

• valid assessment of learning
• academic integrity

Affordances¶

• Dramaturgical Rubric Misconduct Services

Related Strategies¶

• Formative Assessment Cycles

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Roe, J., Perkins, M., Bannister, P., Furze, L., & Wood, J. (2026). Dramaturgies of Deception: AI Humanizers and the Performance of Legitimacy in Higher Education Assessment. A preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02649. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.02649