Authentic assessment in the age of AI: how to meaningfully incorporate AI into your assessments

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  Bookings close 3 Nov 2025 at 11am (UK time).

Workshop overview

‘Authentic assessment’ looks to ensure that assessment tasks meaningfully resemble those that learners will then go onto do in future professional roles.

These assessments are designed to give students the opportunity to show how they can apply their knowledge and skill in real-world contexts. However, the growing use of generative AI within the workplace poses the question: how do our assessments need to adapt, if they are to remain authentic in an AI world?

In this interactive workshop, we'll explore how generative AI tools can be incorporated within our assessments by exploring:

1. How generative AI tools can facilitate students in demonstrating their own understanding through authentic assessment
2. How generative AI tools can act as a creative tool that can help students solve challenging problems and produce complex artefacts.

Through Cambridge expertise, participants will be empowered to understand how generative AI might best be used within their own assessment context and meaningfully consider the pros and cons of doing so.

Who is this workshop for?

The workshop is aimed at anyone looking to incorporate the use of generative AI within their assessments, while maintaining their overall validity.

If you’re new to using generative AI models, or have limited experience, this workshop will give you everything you need to get going. Or, if you're more experienced and want to further develop your approaches in a supportive, yet critical environment, this workshop will help to justify your decision making around AI to key stakeholders like students, parents, and other educators.

Previous delegates have included: 

• Teachers and School Leaders 
• Assessment Managers and Assessment Leads 
• Product and Qualification Managers 
• Trainers and Subject Leads 
• Exams Officers 
• Lecturers

Workshop dates

 This workshop is accredited with a Certificate of Attendance for continuing professional development (3 CPD hours). To be eligible, both live sessions must be attended.

Course outline

This workshop will explore the different ways AI can be incorporated into assessment whilst maintaining its authenticity. You'll explore several different case studies and be given the opportunity to consider the applicability of these within your own context. Assessment validity, and the need to ensure that we are measuring what we intended to measure, will be a key underlying theme throughout.

• Session 1: Incorporating student use of AI into assessment – In the first session, we'll explore the different ways AI can be incorporated into assessment whilst maintaining its authenticity. You will explore several different case studies and be given the opportunity to consider the applicability of these within your own context. An emphasis wilk be place on the difference between an integral and assistive use of AI, and the corresponding implications for accessibility and fairness.
• Session 2: When, and when not, to use AI – In the second session, we'll look at different frameworks that can help us determine whether it is appropriate, or even essential, to include, or prohibit, the use of AI within an assessment. Assessment validity, and the need to ensure that we are measuring what we intended to measure, will be a key underlying theme throughout, and we will examine how AI may impact our existing assessment validation methods.

By the end of the workshop, you'll have a greater understanding of the use of AI within assessment and have had an opportunity to apply these through practical exercises to support your understanding. You'll also take away resources to support you in applying the learning to your own context.

Key learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop, you'll have learned how to:

• Identify opportunities for your learners to authentically use AI in a manner that reflects their possible future professions
• Consider how AI can be incorporated into assessment tasks and consider the implications it may have on their authenticity
• Understand how the use of AI may impact (both positively and negatively) the validity of your assessments
• Develop strategies to ensure the appropriate, effective use of AI within your context.