Challenges and opportunities for classroom-based formative assessment and AI: a perspective article
This perspective article examines how AI integration affects classroom-based formative assessment practices, discussing both opportunities (e.g., automated feedback, data analytics) and challenges (e.g., potential for cognitive offloading, reduced critical thinking, over-reliance on AI-generated content) for teachers implementing formative assessment strategies.
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into educational contexts may give rise to both positive and negative ramifications for teachers’ uses of formative assessment within their classrooms. Drawing on our diverse experiences as academics, researchers, psychometricians, teachers, and teacher educators specializing in formative assessment, we examine the pedagogical practices in which teachers provide feedback, facilitate peer- and self-assessments, and support students’ learning, and di