A second marker on every script. The teacher’s mark stays final.
Every script gets the teacher’s mark and an independent AI mark. Differences beyond your tolerance are flagged, the teacher decides, and the Head of Department sees agreement and drift by teacher. Early access.
Questions teachers ask
- Why does the teacher mark before seeing the AI mark?
- If a teacher sees the AI’s mark first, it can pull their judgement towards it, and the two marks are no longer independent. Ofqual has raised this anchoring risk in its work on AI in marking.
- What if the AI is wrong?
- It will be sometimes, which is why it never sets a mark. The teacher reads the AI’s reason and keeps their own mark if they disagree.
- Can a teacher change a mark after seeing the flag?
- Yes, and the changed mark becomes the mark on the record. Agreement figures still use the mark recorded before the AI was shown, so the pattern stays honest.
- Will teachers feel watched?
- Each teacher sees the flags on their own scripts. Only the Head of Department sees the comparison across teachers. It is meant to start a standardisation conversation, and it does not grade anyone.
- How is the tolerance set?
- The Head of Department sets it for the department, in marks per part.
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