Radical changes in how students are assessed are on the way in a move to combat the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) platforms such as ChatGPT.
The initial focus is on third level, but the Department of Education is keeping abreast of developments.
It is early days, but new guidelines are intended to lead to a complete reimagining of how students’ knowledge and skills are measured.
Already, higher education colleges are being told to abandon certain forms of assessment because they are “no longer be considered to be sufficiently robust to award scores which count towards official grades”.
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