Assessment Reimagined
Shaping the future of assessment in an AI-enabled world
Assessment Reimagined is a whole-of-university initiative focused on transforming how UOW designs, evaluates, and understands student learning in an AI-enabled environment.
Purpose
Assessment Reimagined will enable UOW to define a renewed, future-oriented institutional purpose for assessment that is authentic, integrity-embedded, and aligned with AI-transformed practice. The resulting Assessment Model and implementation roadmap will provide a stable foundation for assessing student learning across all disciplines.
Prof. Ann Rogerson, Academic Lead - Assessment Reimagined (left)
Dr Alyce Mason, Educational Excellence (E²) Lead - Assessment Reimagined (Right)
Contact: 
renaissance-program@uow.edu.au
Overview
Assessment Reimagined builds on the foundations of work undertaken in 2025. It is a whole-of-university exploration and design initiative to redefine the purpose, principles, and expectations of assessment in an AI-enabled world. Through open provocations, workshops, forums, and structured feedback, the project will invite staff and students to challenge inherited assessment assumptions and codesign a distinctive assessment model for UOW, one that is future-focused, integrity-embedded, and meaningfully aligned with disciplinary and professional expectations.
Strategic deliverables
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A distinctive, future-focused UOW Assessment Model that defines the purpose, principles, and expectations of assessment in an AI-enabled world.
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A practical implementation roadmap outlining policy alignment, capability supports, and requirements for university-wide adoption.
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A mechanism for continuous review and renewal of assessment practices to ensure responsiveness to emerging technologies and educational trends.
Why this matters
Many inherited assessment models were designed for pre-AI contexts and no longer consistently provide valid, authentic evidence of student learning. Generative AI is fundamentally reshaping how students learn, how knowledge is demonstrated, and how professions evaluate capability. To maintain the integrity of learning outcomes, assessment will need to evolve toward authenticity and genuine capability development. This project will ensure UOW can proactively respond to these shifts rather than relying on outdated practices or unenforceable AI restrictions. By re-examining assessment’s purpose, functions, and design principles, the initiative will strengthen the relationship between assessment, learning, and future employability. It will also ensure that assessment practices remain aligned with TEQSA’s expectations regarding AI-related assessment integrity risks, while supporting innovation that enhances the student experience.
How it works
At the centre of the project will be the Assessment Think Tank, a cross-faculty group comprising Deputy Deans (Education), Heads of School, and academic leaders (including Academic Program Directors, Associate Heads of School and Deputy Heads of School, [Education]) selected through an open expression-of-interest process. This group will act as the project’s intellectual “engine room”, interrogating key assessment provocations such as grading, integrity, authenticity, feedback, and programmatic assessment, while synthesising insights from staff and student engagement. The wider university community will contribute through provocations, forums, workshops, and structured feedback activities, ensuring the Assessment Model is grounded in diverse perspectives and contemporary evidence.
Project timeline
Mar-Apr
EOI’s Open to join Assessment Reimagined Think Tank
May
Provocation Series
June
Think Tank Co-Design Workshops
Jul-Oct
Commence design of new UOW Assessment Model & Implementation Plan
Nov
Sharing outputs at renAIssance Week
Dec
Synthesis of recommendations for UOW AI-Enabled Education Blueprint
Get involved
Assessment Reimagined will involve staff and students from across the university community in a range of engagement activities and events throughout 2026. There are several ways to contribute to the project and take part in upcoming events and initiatives, depending on your interests and availability. Information about these opportunities will be updated on this page.
Provocation Series: Igniting Institutional Conversation
The Provocation Series marks the starting point for Assessment Reimagined, an open invitation to rethink the very role and purpose of assessment in a world deeply shaped by artificial intelligence. More than a sequence of presentations, the series is designed as a strategic catalyst for shared sense-making across the university. It creates space to challenge inherited assumptions, test new ideas, and broaden perspectives before moving into more focused synthesis and model development.
Throughout May 2026, a curated program of eight two-hour online sessions will bring together leading national and international thinkers in assessment, pedagogy, and AI. Each session is intentionally provocative in tone and content, surfacing tensions, questioning orthodoxies, and opening future-facing possibilities for how assessment might better support learning and student success.
The sessions are designed to maximise accessibility and participation across UOW’s metropolitan, regional, and global campuses. They will be interactive, recorded for asynchronous access, and supported by an online space for continued reflection, dialogue, and feedback. In this way, the Provocation Series functions not simply as an event series, but as a distributed and sustained conversation that invites contributions from staff across disciplines, roles, and delivery modes.
More about how UOW staff can engage with the Provocation Series of events and other opportunities to participate in the Assessment Reimagined initiative will be shared in the near future.
Join the Assessment Reimagined Think Tank or Global Dialogue Group
The Assessment Reimagined Think Tank is a central mechanism for advancing the project's goals, bringing together a cross-section of the UOW community to shape, test, and translate new ideas into institutionally viable models, via a structured, design-oriented space for sustained collaboration. The Think Tank will be comprised of staff from UOW Australia campuses and the UOW College, and will be complemented by the Assessment Reimagined Global Dialogue Group comprised of academic leaders from across UOW global campuses
Members of the Think Tank and the Global Dialogue Group will participate in a Provocation Series in May.
The Assessment Reimagined Think Tank will engage in up to four half-day working sessions across June 2026. These sessions will function as facilitated design labs, supporting shared interpretation, critical sense-making, and the early development of tools, examples, and approaches that could inform a renewed UOW Assessment Model.
Think Tank participants will:
- Engage deeply with the eight Provocation topics and recordings
- Connect ideas with practice across diverse disciplines and course types
- Explore implications for academic workload, systems, student support, student learning, and institutional policy
- Contribute to the development of UoW’s new distinctive Assessment Model and advice on the implementation roadmap.
The Think Tank will comprise approximately 80 members from across UOW Australia campuses and the UOW College academic communities, including: two Heads of School per faculty (nominated by the Deputy Deans Education); and 3–5 Academic Program Directors, Associate Heads of School and Deputy Heads of School (Education) per faculty, selected via an open Expression of Interest (form below). Additional members will include key institutional stakeholders such as the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Regional), University Librarian, Dean of Students, Director Academic Governance and Standards, and other leaders connected to curriculum, student success, equity, digital learning, and quality assurance. This broad representation ensures the Think Tank is positioned to work across Australian faculties, campuses, and organisational boundaries, supporting the development of a model that is both innovative and implementable.
The Assessment Reimagined Global Dialogue Group will bring together academic leaders from across UOW global campuses to participate in a small series of online dialogue sessions in June. This group will discuss emerging ideas and provide perspectives from global campuses that will feed directly into the project's development of future directions for assessment at UOW.
Think Tank members will participate in 8 online provocation sessions (May) and up to 4 co-design workshops (early June) as well as an online Teams community to collaborate on developing innovative assessment approaches.
To submit your responses, scan the QR code to the right or use the Assessment Reimagined Expression of Interest form
Deadline for Submitting an EOI:
- Expressions of Interest will close 11.59 pm Thursday 2nd April. Responses will be reviewed after the closing date, and an outcome regarding Assessment Reimagined Think Tank membership will be communicated as soon as possible thereafter (April).
The Assessment Reimagined Global Dialogue Group will participate in 8 online provocation sessions (May) and an online community of practice with UOW Australia and UOW College's Assessment Reimagined Think Tank. They will also participate in a small series of online dialogue sessions in June to discuss emerging ideas and provide perspectives from global campuses. Insights from these sessions will feed directly into the project's development of future directions for assessment at UOW.
To submit your responses, scan the QR code to the right or use the Assessment Reimagined Global Dialogue Group Expression of Interest form
Deadline for Submitting an EOI:
- Expressions of Interest will close 11.59 pm Thursday 2nd April AEST. Responses will be reviewed after the closing date, and an outcome regarding Assessment Reimagined Think Tank membership will be communicated as soon as possible thereafter (April).
