Based on research carried out by Manchester Metropolitan University, AI Assess is a tool developed by SETU which allows lecturers to evaluate the extent to which their module’s assessment strategy is protected from AI tool misuse.
Manchester Metropolitan University conducted research on a total of nine characteristics and their effect on the likelihood of students to use AI tools when completing assessments. A link to this research is available at: https://aiinhighered.com/assessments
How it works:
Using the information discovered from this research, SETU developed AI Assess to give a quantifiable measure to the level of susceptibility of a educator’s assessment strategy. It reformats the research into a series of questions for educators to answer. It then performs a calculation to return a score related to how well protected the assessment is from AI misuse. Feedback is provided to inform educators on how to make the assessment more secure across each assessment characteristic.
This tool allows educators to see the cause and effect of different assessment formats and strategies and allows for more informed decisions to be made when setting assessments in this new AI captivated world. It is expected that as research changes and as more educators use the tool that amendments can be made to improve the quality of the tool’s output.