AI assistant
What's actually happening
Ask an assistant to write a unit test and you get something generic, an assessment that could belong to any classroom.
The difference is contextualization. You hand it your standards for this unit, real samples of your students' work so the questions fit what they can actually do, your own notes on what the unit was really about, and examples of the questions you write. Then you read the draft against your own intent. Here that is catching a short answer that tests plot when the unit was about powerlessness and broken dreams, and rewriting it.
Same task. The difference is everything you bring to it, and the judgment you apply to what comes back.
The quick ask
“Write a unit test on my novel.”
Generic. Could be any classroom.
Directed
- +Your standards for the unit
- +Your students' real work from it
- +Your notes on what mattered
- +Your question style, then a read for authenticity
A test that fits your unit and your kids.