AI Literacy, Pedagogical innovation
AI & Assessment — Smarter Feedback, Better Learning
6 days
Assessment and feedback are among the highest-leverage interventions in education — and among the most time-consuming for teachers. AI is transforming both. This course explores how to use AI tools to design better assessments, give richer feedback, and create a genuine culture of formative learning.
Participants move beyond AI as a time-saver and discover how it can fundamentally improve the quality of feedback students receive and the depth of insight teachers gain about what their students actually know.
Learning Outcomes
Participants to the course will learn to:
Design AI-enhanced formative assessment strategies for any subject and age group
Use AI to provide quality written feedback at scale — faster and more effectively
Build AI-powered self and peer assessment tools for student metacognition
Apply AI for learning analytics: tracking progress, identifying gaps and adapting teaching
Evaluate assessment AI critically: validity, reliability and the limits of automated marking
Design a school Assessment for Learning strategy integrating AI tools
Programme
AI & Assessment — Smarter Feedback, Better Learning
Monday
Heritage, Memory & Evidence — How We Know What We Know
• Funchal Cathedral: reading historical evidence — what does a building teach us?
• Quinta das Cruzes: curated collections and the question of what we choose to assess.
• São Vicente village: oral history and knowledge that resists standardised testing.
• Evening reflection: what is assessment for — and what should it never be?
Tuesday
Rethinking Assessment — AI and Formative Practice
• Assessment for learning: the research base and what it demands of teachers.
• AI for formative assessment design: exit tickets, hinge questions and diagnostic tools.
• Hands-on: building a complete formative assessment sequence with AI tools.
• Workshop: replacing your most time-consuming assessment with an AI-enhanced version.
Wednesday
AI Feedback — Quality, Speed and Student Impact
• Why feedback fails — and how AI changes the equation.
• AI feedback tools: from automated marking to personalised written comment generation.
• Student-facing feedback: making AI feedback meaningful, specific and actionable.
• Workshop: create an AI feedback workflow for a real piece of student work.
Thursday
Self-Assessment, Peer Assessment & Learning Analytics
• AI tools for self-assessment: reflection prompts, learning journals and metacognition.
• Peer assessment with AI scaffolding: structured protocols for productive peer feedback.
• Learning analytics: using AI dashboards to understand class-wide learning patterns.
• Portfolio assessment and AI: building evidence of learning over time.
Friday
Assessment AI Integration Workshop
• Workshop: designing your complete AI assessment and feedback system.
• Critical peer review: is this assessment making learning better — or just faster?
• School Assessment for Learning strategy: building a whole-school AI feedback culture.
• Action planning: the one assessment change that will have the biggest impact next term.
Saturday
Certificate Ceremony & Closing
• Presentation of each participant's final project or action plan.
• Peer feedback and recognition of the week's collaborative work.
• Formal certificate ceremony in the Jardim Municipal do Funchal.
• Networking, group photo, and exchange of contacts for future Erasmus+ collaboration.
Materials, digital tools & other learning resources
Course participants will receive training and engage in exercises designed to develop their skills as trainers. The provision of additional materials or resources will be determined based on the course structure and the instructor’s approach to meeting the learning objectives
Course package content:
Services and activities included in the course package are those described above. Please note that accommodation, transport, and meals are not provided.
Cancellation & changes:
Common sense prevails when it comes to cancellations, which are analyzed on a case-by-case basis.