About the project

Welcome to the Fair Educational Assessment in the Age of AI (FAIR-ASSESS) project!

Are assessments in higher education rendered more or less fair by the use of artificial intelligence? As both students and teachers can increasingly use AI tools in their assignments and assessments, it becomes crucial to reflect on the promises and pitfalls of these technologies. The FAIR-ASSESS project relies on the value of fairness to develop a normative framework for analysing, evaluating and guiding AI-assisted assessments.

FAIR-ASSESS draws on existing scholarship on fair assessment practices, combines interdisciplinary expertise from five Leiden faculties (Governance and Global Affairs, Humanities, Law, Science, and Social and Behavioural Science) and one inter-faculty institute (ICLON), and it creates settings where students and teachers can deliberate about what fair educational assessment means in the age of AI. By so doing, FAIR-ASSESS anticipates on the challenges that AI-assisted assessments present for student-teacher relations, and on the human, as well as socio-economic costs and opportunities they create for universities and other higher-education institutions.

FAIR-ASSESS is supported by Leiden University’s Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs.