AI agents designed for specific educational purposes can support joyful assessment by creating low-stakes opportunities for practice, feedback, reflection, personalization, and multimodal demonstration of learning¶
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q1 i? AI agents designed for specific educational purposes can support joyful assessment by creating low-stakes opportunities for practice, feedback, reflection, personalization, and multimodal demonstration of learning. → Eliana Khoury & Xiaoyan Ma 2026
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Eliana Khoury & Xiaoyan Ma 2026¶
Eliana Khoury & Xiaoyan Ma. (2026). AI Agents, Joyful Assessment, and Third Space: Rethinking Assessment in the GenAI Era. Journal of Teaching and Learning, 20(4). https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v20i4.11850
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Conceptual analysis of how "AI agents designed for specific educational purposes can support joyful assessment". The article enumerates five supports — practice, feedback, reflection, personalization, and multimodal demonstration of learning — as the low-stakes opportunities such agents create.
"The paper examines how AI agents designed for specific educational purposes can support joyful assessment by creating low-stakes opportunities for practice, feedback, reflection, personalization, and multimodal demonstration of learning."
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AI agents designed for specific educational purposes can support joyful assessment by creating low-stakes opportunities for practice, feedback, reflection, personalization, and multimodal demonstration of learning |
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AI agents designed for specific educational purposes can support joyful assessment by creating low-stakes opportunities for practice, feedback, reflection, personalization, and multimodal demonstration of learning |
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