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Concerns around teachers using AI to mark school work

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Publish Date
Wed, 6 Aug 2025, 6:13am
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Concerns around teachers using AI to mark school work

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 6 Aug 2025, 6:13am

A learning development specialist fears artificial intelligence won't have cultural considerations when marking student work. 

Education Minister Erica Stanford says AI is already partly in use for marking - and expects it could do almost all assessments by 2028. 

It comes as the Government plans to scrap NCEA for an entirely new qualification. 

Cyclone Computer Company's Danny Bedingfield told Ryan Bridge current AI models aren't trained on the uniqueness of New Zealand. 

He says newer, more specific models, would have to be developed

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