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The Department for Education (DfE) is making £1 million available to support developers in creating AI tools to help with marking and feedback in England’s schools.

It said that each of the 16 tools will be targeted at a specific age and subject and that prototypes are expected to be developed by April of this year.

They will draw on an AI store of data, backed by £3 million from the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSIT), to ensure the accuracy of information used in training their algorithms It will pool and encode guidance on the school curriculum, lesson plans and anonymised pupil work that can be used by AI companies to train their tools.

DfE said these could perform activities such as providing individual feedback on handwritten essays, identifying common errors in maths equations and shaping lessons. They would all retain teacher oversight of the feedback to ensure their judgement and expertise would still be applied.

Raise standards

Secretary of State for Education Bridget Phillipson said: “Through our Plan for Change, we are determined to drive high and rising standards across schools so we can break down the barriers to opportunity. Giving every child a cutting edge school experience is a crucial part of our mission.

“High quality teaching is the single biggest driver of high standards in schools and through harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence we can get teachers at the front of classrooms doing what they do best – teaching.”

DfE said that, according to a survey carried out through the TeacherTapp app, almost half of teachers are already using AI to help with their work. But most AI tools are not specifically trained on the documents that set out how teaching should work in England, and are not accurate enough to help teachers with their marking and feedback workload.

It added that training AI tools on the content store can increase feedback accuracy to 92%, up from 67% when no targeted data was provided to a large language model. That means teachers can be assured the tools are safe and reliable for classroom use...read more

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