ON THE FUTURE OF ASSESSMENT Dr Madhia Khan, Director, Research and Consultancy, EDUCATE Ventures: I’ve really been struck by a range of different stakeholder engagements that we’re doing and it’s this tension between what school and college leaders are thinking about versus students. With school and college leaders, the worry is very simple. They worry that students are using AI to skip the thinking, that there’s an erosion of their cognitive abilities, and they’re getting the answer without doing the work. And often, the way they respond to that is to put in place firmer boundaries and police AI in different ways. From students, it’s the opposite, they’re often worried
about being accused of using AI when they haven’t. So actually, we get situations where students are dumbing their work down deliberately because they’re worried that if they present a piece of work that shows progress they’ll be accused of having used AI when they haven’t. They take out their best words, they put spelling mistakes in, and they in some ways are working within the system they’ve been given and are inhibiting their own learning as a result. There’s an interesting phrase and piece of research
done by WONKHE about being ‘trained to stop learning’, and I think that is something which is inadvertently happening here. There are many students who are starting to worry that their grades are not reflective of what they actually know themselves. Four in 10 are admitting handing in work that they can’t explain, and only some feel that their assessment is genuinely connected to what they are learning. On the other side, we are also seeing some very
interesting practices on the ground of how AI is being used within formative assessment.
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Gemma Gwilliam: Assessment no longer reflects how learning happens. Traditional assessment models are based on individual unaided work, but for me, this isn’t about detecting AI use, it’s about recognising that supported learning is now the new normal, and providing our pupils with those digital tools isn’t anything new. AI is just that extra tool in the toolkit that we are monitoring, supporting, and teaching people how to use safely.
Source: Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
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DID YOU KNOW?
South Korea has announced it is training every teacher to use digital tools by 2026. While Singapore aims to roll out AI tools to every classroom by 2030.
In 2025, Estonia launched AI Leap – which provides AI-powered learning tools and generative AI models to teachers and pupils, with half of its schools employing ed tech lead teachers who run on-site labs and train colleagues to integrate technology effectively into their teaching.
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