You have an assessment that worked well for years, but now GenAI can produce a passable version in seconds. Banning the AI tools is unenforceable yet simply allowing them doesn’t make sense either. What do you do? How do you redesign your assessment to improve validity of what you actually are intended to measure while supporting students develop the digital capabilities, they will rely on in professional life?
This is exactly what Lane 2 is for. Under Curtin’s Assessment 2030 framework, Lane 2 assessments help students learn to work appropriately and ethically alongside digital tools in their professional work. The goal is not verifying identity or controlling the circumstances of how students work, but developing the evaluative judgement, critical thinking and self-regulation capabilities needed to produce work of a professional standard. In this session, we will invite you to think intentionally about how to harness and design Lane 2 assessments to support learning in your units and courses.
Duration: 60-90 minutes
Format: in person or online via Microsoft Teams
Group size: Up to 30 participants
Bring along: a current assessment design
Facilitator: Raelene Tifflin
The workshop is built around the four key principles of Lane 2 design. You will explore each through design considerations and best practice examples, then apply them to your own assessment.
- Student Ownership: examine how to design tasks where students take responsibility for their submissions, verify all GenAI outputs, and can defend their work and the decisions underpinning it.
- Professional and Disciplinary Orientation: target outcomes that ask students to demonstrate capability rather than reproduce foundational knowledge, including creative problem solving, evaluative judgement and reflective practice.
- Authenticity and Relevance: ground tasks in authentic disciplinary practice so students engage with the challenges, constraints and standards they will encounter in professional or research contexts.
- Preparing Independent Professionals: design for the reality that students will one day practise without supervision, building the ethical reasoning and decision-making graduates need to navigate complex situations.
You will leave with a reimagined assessment concept for your own unit, and a clearer sense of what Lane 2 tasks are actually assessing.