Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa ›› 2025, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (6): 38-49.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.06.003

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The Myths, Risks and Imaginative Reconstruction of the Concept of “Educational Evaluation” in the Era Empowered by Digital andAI Technologies

Qimin Su, Yanqin Tao   

  1. School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • Accepted:2025-02-24 Online:2025-06-01 Published:2025-05-19

Abstract:

With the progress of digital transformation of educational evaluation, digital and AI technologies empower educational evaluation is deeply rooted in people’s hearts. The “educational evaluation” is a framework concept. It regulates educational evaluation activities, but has internal alienation of a strong technical interest in “how to evaluate” making education better is gradually being forgotten.The “education” origin in the “educational evaluation” is obscured by myths of technical determinism, technical reductionism and technical transcendentalism. It makes digital and AI technologies empower educational evaluation with risks such as digital fetishism, the digital symbolization of human characteristics and digital discrimination. Then it is necessary to make an imaginative reconstruction to the “educational evaluation”. By inducing the conditions for the use of the concept in the ideal state, limiting the bottom-line requirements for digital and AI technologies by the concept in the actual state, ensuring that the concept always reflects the “education” origin and its human nature foundation. This will ensure the rationality of digital and AI technologies to educational evaluation.

Key words: educational evaluation, digital and AI technologies, technical myths, digital risks, concept reconstruction