Pupils could soon sit exam papers set by AI, in a bid to cut workload and ensure the difficulty level remains consistent from year to year.
The head of England’s exams regulator Ofqual discussed the idea with MPs yesterday, saying the current process is ‘labour intensive’ and ‘difficult’.
Sir Ian Bauckham said it was ‘imperative’ that a human still oversees marking of students’ work, but there were ‘very exciting’ prospects to bring in some levels of automation.
So what would AI exam papers look like? You would hope, that if they pass the oversight process, they’d look the same as those set by a human, only perhaps marginally more consistent.
But to get an idea, we asked ChatGPT to give us some of its ideas.
The first questions given were quite boring, so we asked if exam boards ever used more creative ones, and if it could suggest some if so.
The large language model developed by OpenAI said …