Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Primary and Secondary Schools
Using Generative AI in Teacher's Practice
Using Chatbots
in Formative
Assessment
Metodology + AI assistants
Chatbots and formative assessment
This teaching material is a practical guide to using generative AI (GenAI) — specifically chatbots — to make formative assessment easier. It covers approaches and tools for writing learning objectives, success criteria and their progressions, as well as narrative feedback and formative comments for your students.
How to use this teaching material
Using chatbots in formative assessment saves time and energy: routine tasks like writing learning objectives, success criteria, proficiency scales, and narrative feedback can be drafted by AI, freeing you to focus on individualized support for your students. It also supports much stronger personalization — within seconds, you can generate variations of an assignment or assessment for different proficiency levels and for students with diverse learning needs.
Four phases of formative assessment
In the first phase, you use a chatbot to write acompetency-based learning objective aligned with your state or district standards (or your school's Portrait of a Graduate). In the second phase, you give that objective to the chatbot and generate success criteria in two versions — one for teachers and one written in student-friendly language — with additional adaptations for students with diverse learning needs if relevant. The third phase uses the chatbot to create student-facing self-assessment scales. In the final phase, drawing on collected evidence of learning, you have the chatbot draft narrative feedback or formative comments for each student.
