Business T&L Presents Evidencing Learning: A New Framework for Assessment Validity | 11 March

Safeguarding Degree Qualifications

How can we ensure that our graduates have really gained the knowledge & skills which underpin their degrees?

Guest Speaker: Tim Fawns (Monash Education Academy)

Join the Business T&L Team’s online seminar to hear from Tim Fawns, Associate Professor at the Monash Education Academy, who, along with co-authors David Boud & Phill Dawson of Deakin University’s Centre for Research on Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), has proposed one of the most thorough & considered responses to this question.

Their 2026 paper, Identifying what our students have learned: A framework for practical assessment validation, confronts the challenges to the validity of assessment in a time of generative AI & the resulting concerns about student cheating & declining public trust in universities. The authors propose a framework comprising four Ps – Product, Process, Performance, Practices – which emphasises the strengths & weaknesses of the many ways we evaluate student learning. This framework represents a practical guide for designing assessment strategies which provide stronger evidence for student achievement of program learning outcomes.

Hear from Tim about the design of this framework, the thinking behind it & the ways it can inform assessment decisions within subjects & across programs. This seminar will include time for questions & discussion.

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