AI‑graded practice exams as learning tool

Updated: 2026.03.21 1H ago 1 sources
Give students take‑home practice exams and require them to submit both their answers and an AI’s evaluation prompt/output; the instructor uses the pair to assess understanding while preserving low‑stakes formative feedback. Kling found this produced useful evidence that students wrote answers themselves and that AI evaluations were generally helpful, though it would need supervision if used for graded exams. — If adopted widely, AI‑graded practice exams could scale formative assessment, change how universities validate student work, and force institutions to rewrite exam‑integrity and supervision policies.

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Kling’s Public Choice and Political Psychology classes: students turned in answers plus an AI prompt/output and received full completion credit; Kling judged the approach effective but cautioned against using it for high‑stakes exams without supervision.
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