AI Automated Scoring for Elementary Short-Answer and Essay Assessments... Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Discusses How to Use It

[Financial News] The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) will discuss with teachers how to use artificial intelligence (AI) automated scoring for elementary short-answer and essay assessments. SMOE announced on the 22nd that it will hold the “2026 Elementary Teaching and Assessment Innovation Conference” at 3 p.m. on the 28th at Peace & Park Convention in Yongsan for around 300 elementary school teachers and education specialists. The event aims to respond to changes in the educational environment, realize deeper learning centered on questions and inquiry, and explore ways to innovate teaching and assessment. SMOE said it had broadened this year’s conference theme to include assessment, an area that has recently received greater emphasis.
In the area of assessment, Lee Jeong-hun, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE), will introduce the latest trends in AI automated scoring and discuss how automated scoring can be used for short-answer and essay assessments, as well as the role of teachers.
The keynote address will be delivered by Inah Lee, a professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Seoul National University. Under the topic “In the AI Era, How Do Students’ Brains Learn and Remember?”, Lee will explore how teaching and learning should move forward in the AI era, drawing on an understanding of how students learn and remember.
In addition, Won Eun-jeong, director of the Korea Youth Center, will present on changing patterns in student responses and ways for teachers to communicate. Dr. Noh Deul of Ewha Womans University and Na Eun-young, a teacher at Seoul Yangnam Elementary School, will introduce examples of lessons that use student questions, while teachers from five research schools, including Seoul Gongdeok Elementary School, will share examples of applying the “Seoul-Style Question- and Inquiry-Based Teaching Model.”
Seoul Metropolitan Superintendent of Education Geun-sik Chung said, “In the AI era, it is all the more important for students to ask questions and explore on their own, and to develop the ability to form their own ideas.” He added, “Drawing on teachers’ expertise and agency, we will work to realize deeper learning centered on questions and inquiry, and ensure that innovations in teaching and assessment lead to the learning and growth of every student.”

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