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Assessment Architecture

Assessment Architecture helps schools rethink assessment in an AI-saturated world. Learn how to reduce vulnerability, strengthen deep learning, and design assessment systems that value thinking, process, and judgement over superficial performance.
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Host

Matthew Esterman

Who is this for

  • Leadership
  • Classroom teachers
  • Primary school
  • Secondary school

Standards

APST 5.1
APST 5.2
APST 3.2

Included

  • Templates and resources
  • Applied implementation tasks
  • Community access
  • Certificate of completion

Course Description

Assessment Architecture confronts a hard truth: AI has permanently altered the assessment landscape. Traditional task designs are increasingly vulnerable, and surface-level fixes are insufficient. This course guides educators through a structured review of existing assessment practices.


Participants examine where AI creates genuine vulnerability and where it reveals pre-existing weaknesses in task design. The course moves beyond “ban or exam-only” thinking and instead focuses on designing assessment that privileges reasoning, metacognition, iteration, and process visibility.


Educators learn how to redesign tasks to require live thinking, contextual application, oral defence, staged drafting, and reflective explanation. The goal is not AI avoidance but assessment resilience.


The course also explores how AI can support assessment design itself by assisting with rubric clarity, differentiation and feedback scaffolds, while maintaining human oversight.


Assessment Architecture supports schools in aligning academic integrity, deep learning, and future-ready skills. It reframes assessment not as a compliance issue, but as a design challenge that demands thoughtful system-level thinking.

What you will learn

  • How to identify where your current assessment tasks are vulnerable in an AI-saturated environment
  • How to redesign tasks to prioritise reasoning, process, iteration and live thinking
  • How to build assessment structures that strengthen integrity without reverting to “ban or exam-only” thinking
  • How to use AI strategically to improve rubric clarity, feedback scaffolds and task design — while maintaining human oversight

Designed for Real Classrooms

Every strategy in this course has been tested in schools navigating real constraints: time, governance, workload and accountability. This is not theory. It is applied practice.

From Curiosity to Capability

AI experimentation is easy. Sustained capability is not. Educator Intelligence helps schools move from isolated exploration to shared professional judgement.
Your host

Matthew Esterman

Matthew Esterman is a nationally recognised educator, school leader and AI consultant working at the forefront of AI in education. He has supported independent, Catholic and government schools across Australia and internationally to integrate AI responsibly, strengthen governance, and build professional capability in teaching and leadership.
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