UK Results-Season AI Playbook
August 4, 2025
Results season can feel like a rush of numbers, narratives and urgent decisions. This playbook shows departments and SLT how to use AI to turn GCSE and A-level outcomes into actionable teaching priorities—without feeding pupil-identifiable data into tools. You’ll see what to export (and what to strip out), how to spot cohort and subgroup patterns safely, and how to translate question-level weaknesses into reteach sequences, retrieval and targeted practice. It also includes a simple governance checklist and sign-off chain.
Redefining Originality: Assessment in 2024
September 25, 2024
As generative AI becomes a normal part of students’ lives, traditional ideas of “original work” are under pressure. Instead of trying to catch AI-assisted cheating, teachers can redesign assessments so that authentic process, personal voice and contextualised evidence matter more than the final product. This article offers a practical playbook for reworking existing tasks into “originality by design” assessments, with concrete examples, rubrics and classroom routines. You will find strategies that make AI a transparent, bounded part of learning, rather than something to fear or detect.
AI Marking at Scale: Lessons from Universities
August 22, 2024
Universities have been early adopters of AI-assisted marking, moving beyond hype to build practical systems that work at scale. This article distils what they have actually done – from moderation models, calibration routines and governance structures to student communication and union engagement – and translates those lessons into realistic workflows for schools. You will find concrete examples of AI-ready rubrics, feedback templates and phased roll-out plans that fit within existing assessment systems, while respecting exam-board rules, safeguarding and data protection requirements.