Design prompts and assessments that reveal thinking — not just polished answers

The rise of AI in classroom work has changed a basic truth teachers used to rely on: polished output no longer guarantees understanding. Students can now generate a fluent paragraph, a correct solution, or a plausible discussion post without doing the mental work that used to make those artifacts meaningful. That shift creates a growing problem educators are calling false mastery — when performance looks strong, but the underlying reasoning is weak or absent. In this guide, we’ll focus on practical

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