11 Nov 2026: Australasian Symposium on Assessment Literacies in the age of GenAI: Navigating a Wicked Problem

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This half day event explored aspects of assessment literacies in the age of GenAI along with various dimensions of navigating this as a wicked problem.

The 2026 Australasian Symposium on "Assessment Literacies in the age of GenAI: Navigating a Wicked Problem" was jointly hosted by Transforming Assessment (ASCILITE SIG) (Mathew Hillier, University of Tasmania) and the HERDSA Assessment Quality SIG (Priya Khanna, University of Sydney and Thomas Wanner, Adelaide University)

Held 11 Nov 2206, 12:30 midday to 4pm Eastern Australia Summer time i.e. Sydney time zone.

Symposium Resources

The Final Program as pdf and the ASAL2026 Playlist on Youtube (video only).

Seperate session recordings, presentation slides for each speaker and text chat logs are below.

Session 1: Purpose - Foundations and wickedness

Recording: Session 1: Purpose - Foundations and wickedness (Duration 50 minutes, YouTube) and session 1 chat log.

Introduction slides: Welcome and conference overview.

Opening Keynote slides: "In Defence of Wicked Problems: What Assessment Literacy is For",

A/Prof Thomas Corbin, School of Education, Deakin University, Australia.

Session 2: Learning - Design and Assurance

Recording: Session 3: Evidence - Validity and Judgement (Duration 52 minutes, YouTube) and session 2 chat log.

Featuring three presentations:

Slides: "Developing Student Assessment and AI Literacies Through E-Portfolios, Student as Partners and Authentic Assessment",

Dr Thomas Wanner, Adelaide University, Australia.

Slides: "From assessment framework to programme-design heuristic",

Dr Guy W. Bate & Dr Andrew Eberhard, The University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand.

Slides: "Literacy on Validity of Assessment Systems",

Dr Hora Hedayati, Future Now and University of New South Wales, Australia.

Session 3: Evidence - Validity and Judgement

Recording: Session 3: Evidence - Validity and Judgement (Duration 32 minutes, YouTube) and session 3 chat log.

Featuring two presentations:

Slides: "What evidence can we trust? Ethical Augmentation",

Dr Nicole Brownlie, University of Southern Queensland.

Slides: "Changing a Grade Is Easy. Changing a System Is Not.",

Dr Jitha Gopalakrishnan Nair, Dr Zuneera Umair and Dr Sherre Roy, James Cook University, Australia.

Session 4: "Stabilising assessment in an unstable system"

Recording: Session 4: Systems - Culture, change and stability (Duration 42 minutes, YouTube) and session 4 chat log.

Closing plenary slides: "Stabilising assessment in an unstable system",

Prof Simon Sneddon, Faculty of Business, Creative Industries, Technology and Law. University of Northampton, United Kingdom.

Session 5: Audience reactions: Australasian Symposium on Assessment Literacies.

Reflections and open discussion – crowd thematic feedback via menti.

Recording: Session 5: Audience reactions (Duration 11 minutes, YouTube) and Session 5 chat log.

 

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