Artificial Intelligence in Assessment: Opportunities, Challenges, and Ethical Considerations
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Educational Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editors
Interests: psychometrics; data mining; learning analytics; digital assessment; artificial intelligence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Researchers and professionals exploring the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into assessment are invited to contribute to this Special Issue dedicated to examining the transformative role of AI in the behavioral sciences. AI is reshaping assessment practices across diverse contexts, including psychology, cognitive science, education, clinical diagnostics, and human resources. From adaptive testing and automated scoring to large language models and real-time analytics, AI offers significant opportunities to achieve better assessment. It also raises ethical questions around bias, transparency, fairness, and data privacy.
This Special Issue explores the multifaceted impact of AI on assessment, highlighting both the opportunities it creates and the challenges it raises. This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary forum for discussing the latest research, methodologies, and applications of AI in assessment. It seeks to bring together theoretical analyses, empirical studies, and critical perspectives that deepen our understanding of how AI can support, challenge, or transform assessment practices related to human behavior and cognition.
We welcome contributions that investigate the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of AI-based assessment tools and studies demonstrating their effectiveness and limitations in real-world contexts. Papers addressing ethical considerations in AI-based assessments are also encouraged. We welcome original research articles, systematic reviews, and theoretical papers. Topic of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- AI applications in psychological and cognitive assessment;
- AI-driven adaptive testing;
- Automated analysis of behavioral data;
- Interdisciplinary methods combining machine learning and psychometrics;
- Applications of natural language processing and large language models in assessment;
- Ethical considerations in AI-based assessments;
- Case studies demonstrating AI implementation in real-world assessment contexts.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and fostering interdisciplinary dialog on this timely topic.
Dr. Seyma N. Yildirim-Erbasli
Dr. Sevilay Kilmen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence in assessment
- psychological assessment
- cognitive assessment
- adaptive testing
- natural language processing
- large language models
- fairness and bias mitigation
- ethical AI
- behavioral data analysis
- psychometrics and AI
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