Many companies are building tutors. To build a good tutor requires figuring out students already know and what they are learning. Is AI up to this task? On this episode, Jeremy Roschelle and Betsy Corcoran plunge into the murky issues around using AI for assessment with Kristen DiCerbo, the chief learning officer at Khan Academy. Kristen shares why game-based assessments haven’t yet become the best way to measure students’ learning. And we ask: How optimistic should we be that AI can improve assessment over the next 10 years? Tune in for an expert perspective on the hope and hype of using technology to measure learning.

If you’d like to go deeper and explore issues around assessment, check out these resources! 

• Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing), by Salman Khan 
• Psychometric Considerations in Game-Based Learning by Robert J. Mislevy, et.al., 2016.   
• Focus on Formative Feedback by Valerie J. Shute, March 2008
• The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be by Anya Kamenetz, 2016.  
• The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann, 1999 
• Playful Testing: Designing a Formative Assessment Game for Data Science by an interdisciplinary team including Jeremy Roschelle, 2022  

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