Activities

Keep an eye on this page for FAIR-ASSESS publications and activities.

Deliberative Assembly

In January and February 2026, FAIR-ASSESS organised the Leiden Deliberative Assembly on GenAI Use in Higher-Education Assessment. In four meetings spread out over five weeks, students and instructors from all seven Leiden faculties discussed how the university can make assessment fairer now that both students and lecturers have access to generative AI. The outcome consists of a series of rules and recommendations regarding the use of GenAI in assessment, which will be used as input for Leiden University’s assessment policies.

In early April, FAIR-ASSESS will present the results of the deliberative assembly in an advisory report. The appendices belonging to this report can be found here:

• The handbook for participants of the deliberative assembly
• The catalogue of cases intended to spark discussion about the use and regulation of GenAI in assessment
• The (working) paper Uses of GenAI in higher-education assessment practices: a scoping review and typology, written by FAIR-ASSESS
• The (working) paper Fair educational assessment in the age of GenAI: a contractualist framework, written by FAIR-ASSESS

Roundtable AI & assessment

On May 9th 2025, FAIR-ASSESS brought together 10 experts to discuss the future of assessment in higher education. What can universities and universities of applied sciences learn from each other when it comes to dealing with and regulating AI? Can AI use by students promote equality of opportunity, or does it actually increase unwanted disparities? What about experiments in which teachers use AI for giving feedback and grading?

Participants to the roundtable pointed out that, while GenAI technologies should sometimes make us worry, they can also present us with “an opportunity to rethink what we are really educating students for: what do we want out students really to be able to do, and how do we want them to be able to think? (…) What is it, in the end, that we are assessing?”

You can watch the conversation here. If you want to join future FAIR-ASSESS events, let us know by sending an email to j.a.m.daemen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl.