Students, Grades 9-12 track
AI competency, measured for K-12 students, grades 9-12
The situations carry real ambiguity. Research and evidence, the use of personal and other people’s data, accountability for a result a tool produced, fairness across groups, provenance, and the high-stakes decisions that must not be delegated to a system at all. It is the last measurement before the professional tracks, and it is written to that standard.
Who sits this track
Students in Grades 9 to 12, about ages 14 to 18, preparing for university, work and decisions that carry consequences.
Fifteen tracks exist because the competencies that matter to a clinician are not the ones that matter to a teacher, and neither set is what matters to a ten-year-old. The three proficiency levels and the scoring are shared. The items are not.
The judgment this track measures
Scenario items ask what a person would do, not what a term means. These are the situations the students, grades 9-12 items are built around.
- Citing a source a tool produced, and finding out whether it exists
- A tool that performs worse for some groups of people than for others, and what that means for using it
- Building a workflow around a tool for a project, and deciding what stays human
- Where a piece of media came from, before you share it
- A decision about health, money or another person that a tool is confident about
- Length
- Behaviorally anchored self-report items, plus situational judgment items. Self-administered.
- Time
- 20 to 25 minutes. No time limit.
- Levels
- Acquire, Deepen, Create.
- Status
- In CVI review · V 0.1
- Result
- Not pass or fail. A baseline and a set of gaps.
What this track answers to
Anchored to the OECD and European Commission AI Literacy Framework for Primary and Secondary Education and to the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Students. Child AI safety and well-being runs across all four domains as an evidence set rather than as a fifth domain.
Not published yet, and said so on purpose
Common questions
Is the Students, Grades 9-12 track available today?
Not yet. The K-12 Students, Grades 9-12 track is at V 0.1 and its items are with an independent expert panel for Content Validity Index review. Nothing is sold before it has passed review. Register interest and we will offer you the pilot cohort first.
How long does it take?
Most people complete the assessment in 20 to 25 minutes. There is no time limit.
Is it pass or fail?
No. The assessment returns a proficiency level and domain scores. There is no passing score. The purpose is to establish a baseline and identify areas for development.
How is this different from the other tracks?
The situations carry real ambiguity. Research and evidence, the use of personal and other people’s data, accountability for a result a tool produced, fairness across groups, provenance, and the high-stakes decisions that must not be delegated to a system at all. It is the last measurement before the professional tracks, and it is written to that standard.
Do participants choose their own track?
No. The access code an organization issues is bound to one track, and entering it puts the participant on the right instrument automatically.
Who sees my results?
Your results appear on screen as soon as you finish. Whether the organization that issued your code also receives them is set by that organization and disclosed to you before you begin.
What is it validated against?
Every track is content-validated before publication by an independent panel of at least six subject matter experts, none of them the item authors, and is accepted at a scale-level S-CVI/Ave of 0.90 or above.
Sources
- UNESCO AI Competency Framework for TeachersUNESCO, September 2024. 15 competencies across five dimensions and three progression levels.
- Lynn, Nursing Research, 1986Determination and quantification of content validity. The origin of the four-point ordinal CVI scale and its acceptance thresholds.
- Polit and Beck, Research in Nursing & Health, 2006The content validity index: are you sure you know what's being reported? Critique and recommendations.
- OECD and European Commission AI Literacy FrameworkOECD and the European Commission, 2026. AI literacy framework for primary and secondary education. Four domains: Engage with AI, Create with AI, Manage AI, Shape AI.
- UNESCO AI Competency Framework for StudentsUNESCO, September 2024. 12 competencies across four dimensions and three progression levels.
- AI Fluency FrameworkThe 4D framework: Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence. Developed by Anthropic with Rick Dakan and Joseph Feller.