You have just finished reviewing your unit’s assessment profile. Lane 1 is safer, Lane 2 is richer, but together they feel fragmented and harder to explain to students. You know both lanes matter, yet you are left wondering how to design them so they actually work together to scaffold learning, address CLOs, and reduce assessment risk rather than multiply it.
You are not alone. Unit Coordinators across Curtin are thinking about how to actively sequence secure and non‑secure assessments, clarify GenAI boundaries, and build a coherent evidence trail without redesigning everything from scratch. This workshop focuses on practical principles for designing integrated, scaffolded and synergistic Lane 1 and Lane 2 assessments that save time, strengthen assurance of learning, and future‑proof your unit.
Duration: 90 minutes
Format: interactive, hands‑on, in‑person
Group size: Up to 30 participants
Bring along: one unit outline and current assessment map (or draft tasks)
Facilitator: Joel Louie
The workshop is built around four design principles that support Unit Coordinators to move from isolated tasks to a connected, holistic approach to assessment design. You will explore each principle through practical examples, then apply them to your own unit.
- Strategic Sequencing: explore how to distribute Lane 1 and Lane 2 assessments to progressively build complexity, starting with secured foundations and scaffolding towards applied, authentic challenges, while ensuring CLOs are meaningfully secured.
- Complementary Design: identify how Lane 1 verifies knowledge and competency while Lane 2 evidences application, judgement and creativity, and redesign tasks so each lane does different but essential work.
- Authentic Integration and AI Clarity: strengthen the connective tissue between tasks, make AI boundaries explicit, and use Lane 1 outcomes to scaffold and validate Lane 2 work.
- Holistic Evidence and Assurance: build a defensible portfolio of evidence using feedback loops, reflection and triangulation so learning, integrity and quality assurance reinforce each other. .
The session closes with a short design sprint and peer share‑back, where you will identify one concrete improvement to implement immediately in your unit, and a clear pathway for longer‑term assessment transformation work.