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Evaluating AI‑Authored Assessment Items for High-Stakes Exams
Can AI write national exams?
Artificial intelligence can draft exam questions in seconds. But speed is not the only consideration. For national, high-stakes exams, we need confidence that assessments are fair, reliable, and aligned to curriculum standards.
Our latest empirical study explores a critical question: How well do AI-authored exam questions perform compared to those written by experienced human assessors?
What the study examined
203 students sat a GCSE-level Biology practice question paper with both AI-authored and human-authored questions.
The study compared the questions across three areas:
- statistical performance based on student responses
- professional judgement by teachers
- quality review by senior assessment experts.
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