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Leadership Section · Week ending 2026-10-02

A rubric changes the AI grade

What happens when an AI grader receives more than a generic instruction to assign a score? A Turkish history study compared seven models and five prompting approaches against an instructor's ratings of 24 university students' answers. The same answers…

Leadership Section · Week ending 2026-10-02

Ask students to demonstrate mastery

As schools reconsider assessment in an AI-rich environment, a programming-course study offers a useful design example rather than a test of AI itself. Researchers compared 203 students' reports of completed tasks with oral demonstrations across a 60-task…