Generalist AI gives answers, removes friction, and does the thinking. That’s great for productivity—but when AI does the cognitive work, students don’t build the skill. AI Friction Labs offers a solution: Socratic dialogues, role-plays, and scenarios that resist easy resolution. Students do the thinking. The AI provides the resistance. The transcript becomes the assessment—a full record of how each student navigated difficulty.
Assessment
Learning enhancement and improving the educational performance; resources to evaluate student knowledge, growth, and understanding.
Despite initial apprehensions, teachers are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) in classrooms but cite a need for better training and affordability. Teacher feedback helped shape TeacherServer, an AI platform addressing these concerns by providing free practical tools that enhance teaching and learning experiences and prioritizing data privacy.
Beyond the Bubble unlocks the vast digital archive of the Library of Congress to create History Assessments of Thinking (HATs). …
Eduaide.Ai makes lesson planning and assessment easier for teachers, using smart machine learning. Developed by a teacher, the tool uses generative artificial intelligence to automate many tasks that would otherwise have teachers stretching themselves administratively, often taking time away from quality teaching.
Can assessment be more embedded? Can it be more exciting? Or more flexible? In November 2023, the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) unveiled a 3D digital assessment on the Roblox gaming platform that determines how well middle schoolers have learned, and can apply, Newton’s Second Law of Motion.
Developed by the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), Beyond the Bubble unlocks the vast digital archive of the Library of Congress to create History Assessments of Thinking (HATs).
The National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) advances STEM education to ensure all students, especially those furthest from opportunity, thrive and reach their highest potential as problem solvers and lifelong learners who pursue their passions and tackle the world’s toughest challenges.
Smithsonian Science for the Classroom is setting the standard for 3D learning and 3D assessment. Developed by the Smithsonian Science Education Center, this integrated STEM curriculum is designed to engage students in grades 1–5 in phenomenon-based learning through coherent storylines that connect to the world around them.
A group of researchers and education entrepreneurs have launched Assessment for Good to help teachers understand how students aged 8 to 13 are starting to see themselves in the world—culturally, socially, and academically—and how that constantly shifting sense of self takes shape and can support learning.
For the past 70 years, ETS has been driven by a vision of what’s possible when all people can improve their lives through education. It’s why ETS’s uncompromising commitment to equity and fairness is behind everything ETS does. Learn more at ets.org









