How do you assess student understanding when ChatGPT is at their fingertips? You don’t have to rewrite your assessment playbook overnight, but you should reimagine them. Whether you're enhancing traditional methods or exploring new assessment strategies, Macmillan Learning is here to help.
Every type of assessment has value. In an AI-driven world, both traditional and authentic formats need extra support to make learning meaningful, not just measurable. Here’s how Achieve helps:
Multiple-choice questions, timed exams, and essays have been a cornerstone of measuring knowledge at scale. But with the rise of generative AI, these traditional methods need to evolve to stay effective and fair. Achieve strengthens traditional assessments with tools that promote fairness, originality, and critical thinking, without requiring instructors to overhaul what already works.
Secures the testing environment—students can't open other tabs or use AI tools during online exams.
Create randomized, auto-graded assessments that reduce answer-sharing and AI pre-filling. You can pull from large question banks to ensure variety. Providing students with randomized versions with unique questions increases exam fairness and reduces grading discrepancies.
Custom prompts reduce AI-generated answers by asking for reflection, context-specific opinions, or class-based synthesis. AI-assisted grading makes it easy to grade writing at scale.
Achieve’s AI Tutor provides students with instant support while working on homework, helping them build a stronger foundation of conceptual understanding. This foundation ensures they’re better prepared to tackle higher-order thinking assessments with confidence.
Authentic assessments challenge students to apply knowledge meaningfully through real-world tasks, higher-order thinking, and self-reflection. They can be more resistant to AI shortcuts because they focus on process, not just final answers. Achieve can help instructors grade authentic assessments at scale with tools that support students from ideation to submission and feedback.
Students work through real-world scenarios, applying course concepts to analyze and solve problems. Achieve offers integrated case studies across disciplines like biology, economics, and psychology.
In Achieve, students interpret datasets, analyze trends, and solve problems based on real-world information. For example, graphing and statistical exercises in STEM courses.
Labs are the original authentic assessment, bringing scientific concepts to life through hands-on experiences. Macmillan Learning Lab Solutions offers both print and digital solutions so that you can help students go beyond memorization, to experiment, analyze, and draw meaningful conclusions.
Plus, Achieve for Labs makes grading lab work easy for instructors. Whether you need ready-to-use labs or want to customize them to suit your students and curriculum, Macmillan Learning has you covered.
Empower students with hands-on learning through video recordings. They can practice speeches, refine their communication skills, and receive AI-supported feedback for deeper engagement and growth.
Writing tools support students throughout the writing process by guiding them through drafting, revising, and reflecting, while fostering stronger writing skills. With features like feedback, peer reviews, and citation management, they help students produce meaningful, high-quality work from start to finish.
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Peer consultants explore authentic assessment in action—highlighting practical strategies in Achieve that elevate student learning. From real-time response tools to adaptive quizzes, they showcase how traditional and forward-thinking methods can come together seamlessly.
Discover how to design meaningful, AI-resilient assessments that foster critical thinking, reflection, and real-world skills. This whitepaper shares practical, research-backed strategies to help bring authentic assessments to your course.
Explore practical tips and examples on how to implement authentic assessments into your discipline.
