Research programme
FAIR-ASSESS: Fair Educational Assessment in the Age of AI
Anticipation on the promises and challenges that AI-assisted assessments present.
- Duration
- 2024 - 2027
- Contact
- Michael Lew
- Funding
- Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
- Partners
Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Law, Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON)

Are higher-education assessments (e.g., papers, presentations, exams) rendered more or less fair by the use of AI software? As AI tools are increasingly used to design, administer, complete and evaluate higher-education assessments, it becomes crucial to reflect on their promises and pitfalls.
This project relies on the value of fairness to develop a normative framework for analyzing, evaluating and regulating AI-assisted assessments. Drawing on scholarship on fair assessment practices, and combining interdisciplinary expertise and methods from 5 Leiden faculties and one inter-faculty institute, the project rethinks and operationalizes what fair educational assessment means in the age of AI. By so doing, it 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.