Christie’s blueprint for an AI-ready SBA

Rather than scrapping traditional School-Based Assessments, Christopher Christie believes CXC should modernise them through what he calls an AI-Transparent SBA.

His proposal includes:

Declare AI use: Students should disclose whether they used AI, identify the platform and explain how it assisted their work. Using AI should not be considered cheating; concealing its use should.

Show the process: Students would submit research notes, outlines, early drafts, teacher feedback and reflections to demonstrate how the assignment evolved over time.

Oral defence: Teachers would spend about five minutes questioning students about their project, testing whether they genuinely understand the work submitted.

Supervised checkpoints: A classroom-based exercise linked to the assignment would allow teachers to compare independently completed work with supervised performance.

Assess AI literacy: Rather than avoiding AI, Christie believes students should be required to evaluate AI-generated information, identify errors, detect bias and improve machine-produced responses.

“The answer is not to run from the technology,” Christie argues. “The answer is to improve the assessment.”

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