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"That’s the real trick," writes Mark Guzdial. "How do you know that the students learned what they were supposed to learn? We know that self-assessment is a bad way of judging that learning. That’s the contribution that I see the Stanford AI class making – doing assessment, at least in the form of quizzes." But as one of the commenters writes, "the huge point about assessment is not mentioned — the article and idea gets bogged down in certification issues. What they need to think really deeply about — and come up with good solutions for — is above threshold feedback to the students in a variety of time scales."

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