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AI-mediated third space assessment environments connecting formal curriculum with students' interests, experiences, and learning needs

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Description

Drawing on third space theory, the paper argues that AI agents implemented "within relational and ethically governed environments" can help mediate assessment settings that "connect formal curriculum with students' interests, experiences, and learning needs". Third space here names a hybrid assessment environment shaped jointly by formal curriculum and learner experience.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • AI agents must be implemented within relational and ethically governed environments for third space assessment mediation.

Constraints

  • The paper presents this mediation as an argument to be examined further, listing relational assessment practice and equity among its future research directions.

Target Learners

  • students whose interests, experiences, and learning needs are connected to formal curriculum through assessment

Learning Goals

  • connecting formal curriculum to student interests and experiences
  • responsive assessment practice

Claims

  • Joyful Assessment Framework

Examples

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Key Sources

  • 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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title AI-mediated third space assessment environments connecting formal curriculum with students' interests, experiences, and learning needs
description Drawing on third space theory, the paper argues that AI agents implemented "within relational and ethically governed environments" can help mediate assessment settings that "connect formal curriculum with students' in...
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