Ofqual chief regulator Dr Jo Saxton has said she will not allow robots to take over marking students’ work – but some artificial intelligence (AI) could improve spotting errors.
Saxton told the Festival of Education how the exams watchdog thinks England needs a mixed approach to digital exams: some on-screen, others with traditional pen and paper.
However, she confirmed that when it comes to “relying solely on artificial intelligence to mark students’ work, this is not something that we’re going to allow”.
Ofqual does think AI “has a place to do things like quality assurance of human marking, spotting errors, those sort of things”, Saxton added. “But it cannot and will not replace humans. And Ofqual is going to make sure of that.”
