Beyond 100%: Redefining Assessment

If every student can earn a perfect score with AI assistance, what does mastery actually mean? This session tackles one of education's most urgent questions: not how to prevent AI from helping students, but how to redesign learning so the journey to understanding matters more than the final product. Drawing on classroom data, teacher perspectives and real student examples from Optima Academy Online, a K-12 virtual school where students learn daily alongside AI, you will see what shifting assessment from product to process looks like, including what worked, what failed and what surprised the team. Then the question turns to you: what would you change about your grading, rubrics or assumptions if 100% were the starting point, not the destination? You will leave with a reframed definition of mastery, strategies for redesigning rubrics and bringing assessment-as-dialogue into existing grading structures, starting with one unit or assignment, and new questions worth taking back to your team.