{"id":23115,"date":"2025-07-25T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23115\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:17:10","slug":"yougov-survey-splits-opinions-on-students-using-ai-for-coursework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23115\/","title":{"rendered":"YouGov survey splits opinions on students using AI for coursework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Duffy called for a strategy on AI after an independent curriculum and assessment review said it would consider reducing the &#8220;overall volume of assessment&#8221; at GCSE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An interim report, published in March, said the review had heard about the &#8220;risks&#8221; to standards and fairness concerning AI in relation to coursework.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The review, which was chaired by education expert Becky Francis, will publish its final recommendations in the autumn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Duffy said the findings should be seen as a challenge to find a way to &#8220;adapt coursework so it is fit for the AI century&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;AI is already in our schools and is not going away,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A co-ordinated national strategy, with funding to ensure no schools are left behind, will build public confidence in its transformational potential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[AI] enables us to test different skills, and to reduce the intense volume of exams taken at 16.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The YouGov survey, which was carried out in June, suggested more than three in five UK adults also oppose teachers using AI to mark coursework, but 27% support it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Duffy called for a strategy on AI after an independent curriculum and assessment review said it would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-23115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}