FFYE Forum – Evaluative judgement in the age of GenAI | 16 August

To set students up to become lifelong learners who can adapt to changing professional requirements and environments, they need to be able to evaluate their own learning processes, as well as the quality of work they produce. This capability is referred to as evaluative judgement, and in the age of GenAI, the urgency to cultivate this in our students is increasing at pace.  

In this Forum, we don’t argue against the use of GenAI in supporting students’ learning and ongoing development. We recognise that its appearance and use is only likely to grow within and across the professions. Instead, we wonder how it is changing the way we think about learning and assessment, and what kind of evaluative judgement is now required in order to engage with and selectively apply the output of GenAI in transparent and critical ways.  

Drawing on the UTS 2023 Guide on Five student-centred principles for the effective ethical use of GenAI (2023) and the June publications of Mollick & Mollick (2023) and Lui & Bridgeman (2023), we will investigate how to actively engage students in the exploration of GenAI in learning and assessment. This can create opportunities for developing students’ critical judgement and ethics and prepare them to use GenAI in the workplace. Students can practice strategies such as documenting iterative co-design with GenAI to build their understanding of its output, and ‘collaborate’ with GenAI, complementing the artificial intelligence with their own insight and ethical oversight.  

This forum will be a mixture of presentations and activities: 

• The case for evaluative judgement in our classrooms 
• Academic case studies  
• Activities using evaluative judgment and prompting practice in GenAI in co-creating artifacts  
• Student panel (UG and PG) on GenAI tools and (potential) evaluative judgement practices in their disciplines 

These online forums are a place to share practice and network. Academics, Professional Staff and students are very welcome.

Looking forward to a great session, 

Kathy Egea, Alisa Percy, Jenny Wallace and Joshua Dymock  

What is the UTS FFYE Program?

The UTS FFYE (First and Further Year Experience) Program is an institutional-wide program, designed to support the successful transition of students in their journey through their degrees and into the workplace. The program has three foci: curriculum, people and the university infrastructure, drawing from community and connection in collaboration with academic and professional staff.

One key element of the program is community building. FFYE Forums (regular meetings) and FFYE community (MSTeams) provide spaces for sharing, learning and ongoing collaborations connecting research, practice and student experience. Contact Kathy Egea (FFYE coordinator) to join.