Artificial Intelligence for Educational Assessment: Prediction, Validity, and Responsible Use

Authors

  • Garrett Barrett Author
  • Mason Fletcher Author
  • Cole Burke Author

Keywords:

Ai Educational Assessment, Construct Validity, Data Drift, Fairness, Explainability, Teacher Oversight

Abstract

Ai Educational Assessment poses a recurring problem of coordinating performance with evidence quality, resource limits, and transfer across settings. The discussion is organized around placing performance prediction inside a broader validity, fairness, and intervention framework. The comparison integrates 1 focal paper with 13 independently retrieved publications whose authorship and venue fields were independently checked. The analysis is organized around construct validity, data drift, fairness, explainability, and teacher oversight. Rather than treating headline results as if they shared one denominator, the review compares study questions, technical premises, and validation scope. Across the literature, the recurring conclusion is that advances in AI educational assessment become credible when behavior, measurement, and decision context are evaluated together and when uncertainty about selection effects is reported explicitly. This organization relates method selection to decision risk and exposes recurring transfer threats, and proposes a research agenda centered on transparent baselines, stress testing, and reproducible evidence.

Archive transfer

Originally published in Inclusive Growth and Management Quarterly (NB), article 38, on 2026-08-31. Transferred to Perspectives in Research and Society on 3 November 2026. The original authors, publication date and article text are retained.

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2026-08-31