A Human Centered Model for Discussing AI in Assessment

Cormier argues that generative AI has changed very little about what we need to teach and a great deal about who controls the information ecosystem students work in, which is why an assessment that used to infer effort from a finished product now infers nothing at all. What he offers in response is deliberately a diagram rather than a policy, built so that a whole campus can argue about assessment renewal in one shared vocabulary instead of each department inventing its own. Put it in front of a committee when you need the conversation to be about what you are actually trying to measure, rather than collapsing into another argument about whether AI is good or bad.

Task

Grading & feedback

Time

12 min

Level

intermediate

Cost

Free — Nothing to pay. A free account at most.

Tools

None in particular

Published

2026-05

Voice

Dave Cormier — Argues from a curriculum director's chair that AI needs an institution-wide learning model, which is the argument you need when your department wants only a syllabus statement.