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Assessments in the Age of AI

For at least a century, the take-home essay, the term paper, and the lab report have been mainstays of measuring student progress. Alongside tests, oral reports, and worksheets, they have served as the traditional cornerstones of student grading. 

However, generative AI has made these classic methods much less credible tools for standalone assessment. In the Age of AI, it is becoming increasingly clear that teachers need to pivot toward grading the process a student uses more than just the final outcome they produce. Particularly for term papers and essays, educators need to evaluate the decisions and procedures that students use just as much as the finished product. When students learn to employ sound judgment and use pedagogically healthy processes, they build the skills to repeatedly write thoughtful, engaging essays. 

Making Process-Oriented Grading Practical

Evaluating the entire learning process can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and impractical for busy teachers. Mountainside PD training empowers your faculty with real-world strategies and classroom-ready assessment designs that turn process-oriented grading into a viable, efficient option. 

Here is how we approach meaningful assessment:

• Keep Grading Human: Mountainside actively discourages using AI to do the grading for teachers. AI can never match the nuance, empathy, or skill of an experienced teacher.

• Deeper Feedback: Instead, we show how to restructure assignments so teachers can offer students deeper, more meaningful feedback.

• Scaffolded Success: We show how to break large essays and research papers into smaller, more manageable sections that can be individually guided and graded.