Focus Week: ChatGPT and AI: Assessment challenges and opportunities

Please note that the revised Standards for Registered Training Organisations were publicly released on 1 October 2024 and will come into full regulatory effect from 1 July 2025.

The Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015 will continue to apply until then.

This webinar recording refers to, and is based on, the requirements for the current regulatory environment.

Topic

ChatGPT was released in November 2022, but it is just one of the first of many AI products that are being released across the world. AI is here, and it is changing how we work, and inevitably, how we assess. As a sector, we need to remain current in terms of industry practice, and that will include us being able to graduate learners who have the AI skills to be productive and efficient in the workplace.

In this, 90-minute webinar participants looked at some of the challenges and opportunities that ChatGPT and AI will bring to the way we assess. Many of our current assessment methods are going to become difficult, even impractical, to use when AI can produce quality answers or products within seconds. But it's not all bad news! ChatGPT, and other AI products, will revolutionise how we work. It will allow workers to be more productive and complete tasks more efficiently in all industries and job roles, including ourselves as trainers and assessors.

During the webinar participants explored and discussed a variety of ways we can adjust our assessment methods to address authenticity risks and also incorporate AI as a tool within assessment tasks. They also looked at ways we can use AI in our own practice as trainers and assessors.

What was covered in the session:

• The immediate issue: Assessment methods that are likely to become obsolete because of ChatGPT and AI
• The immediate answer: Direct assessment: Authentic and AI-proof
• The future: How will AI be used in the industries and job roles we train and assess?
• The opportunity: Training and assessing our learners to use AI to be more productive, efficient and employable
• The how: Ideas and examples of how we can change the way we assess to incorporate AI into assessment
• The tool: Ways assessors can use ChatGPT and AI to be more productive

Webinar content targeted towards:

Anyone looking to refine their assessment tools and practices

• RTO/Compliance Managers
• Trainers/Assessors
• Resource Developers
• Heads of Faculty/ Department/Area Managers
• Consultants
• Private Individuals
• Curriculum Developers/L&D Managers

Webinar duration: 90 minutes

Bio of presenter:

Coleen has had 20 years of experience in the VET sector. She has owned and managed various RTOs and is an experienced instructional designer and VET professional.

Coleen is passionate about quality vocational education and the delivery of best practice competency assessment.

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