How universities can examine their students in the age of AI

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After a heavy week of attending physical and online debates on Artificial Intelligence (AI) use for teaching and learning, particularly at the university level, I am persuaded that we need to review how we measure student learning.

At the university level, particularly from the third year to the postgraduate level, traditional assessment practice is now being questioned in light of AI capabilities. Generative AI has not eliminated the value of examinations or term papers, but it has complicated what these formats can reliably evidence when the work is produced outside a supervised setting.