Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) fundamentally transforms many areas of life and society. It also has particular impacts on education, as it challenges roles, activities, and interactions in teaching and learning.
To address these challenges, the new EU project “AI-Driven Assessment in Education: Shaping Policies for Responsible and Ethical Implementation” (ASSAI) started now, co-funded by the European Union.
The key research question of ASSAI is:
How can we enable policymakers, leaders and professionals to innovate and improve formative and summative assessment in higher education with the effective, inclusive, human-centred and ethical use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)?
ASSAI provides guidance to policymakers, leaders and professionals in higher education to support them in considering the benefits and constraints of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its ethical and systemic effects for education systems and individual institutions.
In particular, the role of assessment in education is given attention, as the use of AI for the evaluation of learning outcomes can have pronounced impact on traditions of higher education systems and practices. In the European AI Act, it has accordingly been classified as high risk, given that assessment is often considered as the fulcrum by education systems and institutions to measure success of their pedagogical mission, learning outcomes and operational models.
Ultimately, ASSAI thus enables policymakers, leaders and professionals in higher education to improve their organisational readiness and expertise building for planning and regulating the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI).