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Sydney Students Allegedly Forced to Retake NAPLAN After AI Predictive Text Error
- Occurred
- Mar 12, 2025
- Published
- Mar 19, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A predictive text malfunction allegedly compromised the integrity of the NAPLAN writing exam at two Sydney schools, Waverley College and Kambala, in that it allowed students to access AI-driven text suggestions. Caused by a technical oversight, this incident led to affected students being required to retake the test.
Developers
- Apple
Deployers
- Waverley College (Sydney, Australia)
- NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA)
- Kambala (Sydney, Australia)
- Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
Harmed parties
- Waverley College (Sydney, Australia) teachers
- Waverley College (Sydney, Australia) students
- Kambala (Sydney, Australia) teachers
- Kambala (Sydney, Australia) students
- Students
- Teachers
- Epistemic integrity
- Educational communities
Tags
- Testing integrity
- Standardized examination
- Predictive text
- NAPLAN
- Sydney
- Australia
- Education
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI predictive text malfunction caused exam integrity issues requiring retakes.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8