AI-readiness assessment
A fourteen-question conversation that measures how ready a student is to use generative AI, with stars along the way and a report at the end.
What it is: a short test of your AI literacy, run as a conversation. Fourteen questions, multiple choice and open-ended mixed together, which adapt to your answers: do well on a topic and the follow-up gets harder, get stuck and you get an explanation. You earn stars, and it ends with a report of your strengths, what needs work and what to do next. Allow twenty to thirty minutes.
Runs on: this site. Open the AI-readiness assessment.
What the Education Lab is testing here
Whether a conversation measures AI literacy better than a questionnaire does. A questionnaire records what someone ticks; a conversation can probe, notice a half-formed answer and explain on the spot what was missing. The price is time: this takes longer than a form you fill in between other things.
The second thing being tried here is reuse. This instrument was not invented here but adopted, and the question is whether an assessment that works elsewhere holds up in VU teaching.
Why the questions are in English
The conversation follows your language: start in Dutch and the explanation, the feedback and the final report are in Dutch. The fourteen questions and their answer options stay in English. That is a choice rather than an oversight: they are the original instrument’s questions, and a translation quietly turns a validated question into a different one.
Where it comes from
The assessment is based on the AI-Readiness Agent of the University of Sydney. The Education Lab ran it earlier at edudatabase.ctl-vu.nl; this version runs on the VU’s own environment, inside the EU.
How to use it
- As a self-test you point at in a course manual or in Canvas, not as part of an assessment.
- At the start of a course in which students will work with AI, so they know where they stand.
- As a way into the conversation in class: have students compare their reports rather than their scores.
That classroom form is written out as an exercise under AI literacy: The AI-readiness assessment in your class, with an in-class variant and a lighter formative one.
The assessment does not ask for your name or student number, and it should stay that way: do not enter personal details it has not asked for.