NSW Seeks Ban on 50% HSC Take-Home Assessments as AI Review Targets Student Learning
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Updated · The Guardian · Aug 9
NSW Seeks Ban on 50% HSC Take-Home Assessments as AI Review Targets Student Learning
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 9
Summary
Prue Car has asked the NSW Education Standards Authority to urgently examine AI and ban unsupervised take-home assessments, with any interim changes potentially starting in term 4.
Half of a student's HSC result comes from school-based assessments, and some are completed outside the classroom — the gap Car says AI can exploit.
Car said growing evidence shows AI is affecting students' cognitive development and could let them bypass the learning needed to build knowledge, judgment, resilience and critical thinking.
The proposed restriction is part of a broader NSW review of how artificial intelligence is affecting student learning and the integrity of the HSC.