Adam Bridgeman and Danny Liu, USYD

Preamble:

The new Sydney Assessment Framework categorises each assessment according (i) to their role as assessment of, for or as learning and (ii) how they are delivered and adjustments are applied. It aligns with the ‘two-lane approach’ to assessment in the age of generative AI through the appropriate use of ‘secure’ assessments where the use of AI can be controlled (Lane 1), and the development disciplinary knowledge, skills, and dispositions alongside AI through ‘open’ assessments (Lane 2). This categorisation aims to cover all assessments at Sydney.

It is designed to ensure that constructive alignment within programs and across units is both possible and reliable, so that The University of Sydney can demonstrate that our graduates genuinely have met the outcomes and have the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that they state they do, whatever pathway they take through an award and whatever their individual needs are. It also aims to enhance the information provided to students in their unit outlines and to those such as Special Consideration and the Inclusion and Disabilities Service who support students.

https://educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au/teaching@sydney/the-sydney-assessment-framework/