Don't Show Your Work. Explain Your Thinking. Introducing Innovative Assessments
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Overview
Khan Academy introduces Khanductor, an AI-powered conversation facilitator integrated into assessments, designed to assess students' conceptual understanding and reasoning beyond traditional problem-solving. Khanductor, distinct from Khanmigo, engages students in a dialogue, asking targeted questions developed by content experts to probe deeper into standards, with approximately 20% of math items featuring this 'Explain Your Thinking' (EYT) component. This innovation aims to provide teachers and administrators with richer insights into student learning, enabling more informed instructional decisions and targeted professional development.
Key takeaways
- Khanductor is an AI facilitator for Khan Academy assessments, designed to assess students' reasoning and conceptual understanding through guided conversations, not just correct answers.
- Approximately 20% of Khan Academy's math assessment items will incorporate Khanductor's 'Explain Your Thinking' (EYT) feature, which follows a traditional question with a dialogue.
- Khanductor's conversational prompts are developed by subject matter experts and are rigorously trained and validated to ensure they are non-leading and accurately reflect student understanding.
- Assessment reporting powered by Khanductor provides teachers with detailed insights into individual student thought processes and classroom-wide trends, informing instructional decisions.
- The EYT assessment model aims to bridge the gap between classroom 'show your work' expectations and traditional, often prescriptive, assessment formats, making assessments more authentic and meaningful.
- Khanductor's ability to engage students in explaining their thinking, even playfully (e.g., explaining functions via Doritos in a vending machine), helps reduce anxiety and allows for deeper, personalized meaning-making.
Chapters
- Natalie McClurg (Senior Assessment Content Creator, Math) and Liz Rutkowski (High School ELA Assessments Team) introduce themselves.
- Khan Academy has a dedicated team of 15 focused on new interim assessments.
- Khanductor is an AI-powered conversation facilitator for assessments, distinct from Khanmigo.
- Khanductor remains content-neutral but asks questions to help students demonstrate understanding.
- Approximately 20% of math assessment items are 'Explain Your Thinking' (EYT) items featuring Khanductor.
- EYT items have two parts: a traditional assessment item followed by a conversation with Khanductor.
- Khanductor probes conceptual understanding and the reasoning behind problem-solving processes.
- In ELA, EYT questions can assess dense standards, ask for text evidence, and prompt students to create their own answers.
- Content creators provide Khanductor with rubrics to evaluate student understanding and guide questioning.
- Researchers validate Khanductor's scoring and conversational responses against human agreement.
- Khanductor's questions are designed to be non-leading, allowing students to showcase their own thinking.
- Reporting includes student-level conversation transcripts and higher-level classroom trends for teachers and administrators.
- EYT items align with specific standards, providing insights into student discourse and conceptual understanding, especially in math.
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