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“Scalable Personalized Oral Exams With An ElevenLabs Voice AI Agent”

“We surveyed students before releasing grades to capture their experience. Some of the results: Only 13% preferred the AI oral format. 57% wanted traditional written exams. 83% found it more stressful. But here’s the thing: 70% agreed it tested their actual understanding: the highest-rated item. They accepted the assessment but not the delivery. At the […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.

– Peter Nilsson

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