Parents and Caregivers track
AI competency, measured for parents and caregivers
The one track that measures the household rather than the classroom or the workplace. Six domains rather than five: AI understanding, purposeful use and human-AI collaboration, critical evaluation, responsible use and privacy, parental mediation and child safeguarding, and family AI governance. No single published parent framework validates all six, so the track draws on several, and jurisdiction-specific law is deliberately not scored.
Who sits this track
Parents, guardians and primary caregivers of school-age children, answering in relation to their own child or children.
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 parents and caregivers items are built around.
- Your child is talking to a companion app, and deciding what to do about it
- A homework tool the school has not mentioned, and what to allow
- A photo of your child that a tool asks for, or generates
- Setting rules the household can actually keep
- Explaining to a child why something a tool said was wrong
- Length
- 40 items, plus the readiness checklist.
- 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 UNICEF’s Guidance on AI and Children, version 3.0, and to the Digital Promise AI Literacy Framework, alongside the AI Fluency 4D Framework. No single published framework for parents exists, which is why this track draws on more than one.
Not published yet, and said so on purpose
Common questions
Is the Parents and Caregivers track available today?
Not yet. The Parents and Caregivers 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 one track that measures the household rather than the classroom or the workplace. Six domains rather than five: AI understanding, purposeful use and human-AI collaboration, critical evaluation, responsible use and privacy, parental mediation and child safeguarding, and family AI governance. No single published parent framework validates all six, so the track draws on several, and jurisdiction-specific law is deliberately not scored.
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.
- UNICEF Guidance on AI and ChildrenUNICEF Innocenti, version 3.0, 2025. Ten requirements for child-centered AI, drawing on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Digital Promise AI Literacy FrameworkDigital Promise, 2024. Three modes of engagement: understand, evaluate, use.
- AI Fluency FrameworkThe 4D framework: Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence. Developed by Anthropic with Rick Dakan and Joseph Feller.