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The Four Boxes Every Assessment Now Needs
Manchester's four-category AI assessment framework—Prohibited through Integrated—does not standardise what universities think about AI in assessment. It standardises the disclosure. What changed in September 2026 was that an implicit and often unspoken assumption buried in every syllabus became a mandatory, published decision visible to every student before they submitted. For a sizeable number of academics, classifying their assessments was the first time they had been asked what those assessments were actually measuring.
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Cite Your Sources, Class Three: India's Classroom AI and the Retrieval Pattern It Almost Deploys
India is installing, at national scale, a curriculum-grounded retrieval-augmented tutor: CBSE mandating AI from Class 3 upward, SATHEE running in twelve Indian languages, a target of 1 million trained teachers by 2027. The retrieval architecture is the right one. What is missing from every deployment surveyed here is the teach-versus-solve evaluation loop: the independent, automated check that determines whether the system taught a concept or merely answered correctly.
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