Generative AI is reshaping exam preparation and assessment by enabling students to create personal, around-the-clock AI tutors that generate tailored learning materials and feedback. Students can upload marking frameworks, draft sample answers, and receive iterative improvement suggestions, improving understanding and practice. Rapid AI development is prompting consideration of new exam formats that evaluate effective AI use as a core digital skill. AI also raises academic integrity concerns, driving calls for increased security checks, enhanced invigilator training to detect concealed communication devices and AI-enabled wearables, and measures to adapt marking and assessment practices to the evolving technology.
Using AI can give a student a much better understanding of a subject because they can ask those questions they wouldn't ask in class, or at odd hours, without being judged, said Dr Andrew Rogoyski of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI. It really took off this summer, said Sandra Leaton Gray, a professor of education futures at University College London's Institute of Education.
Others suggest AI is developing so rapidly a totally new exam will be needed to test how effectively students are using it. Dr Thomas Lancaster, a computer scientist at Imperial College London specialising in the educational use of generative AI, academic integrity and student cheating, said: This is becoming such a core digital skill now. I think an exam of this type is inevitable.
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