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Q4361873 Inglês
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What's worth measuring? The future of assessment in the AI age

The rise of AI tools disrupts traditional ideas of assessment, and urges a shift toward promoting and evaluating higher-order thinking, creativity, and ethical reasoning.

By Hrishikesh Desai

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT have fundamentally disrupted traditional notions of assessment in education. When a machine can generate essays, solve complex problems, and even mimic creative writing, educators are forced to ask: What skills should we assess, and how do we evaluate learning in a world where AI can perform tasks once thought uniquely human? This think piece explores the implications of AI for assessment and argues that we must shift from measuring rote knowledge to promoting and evaluating higher-order thinking, creativity, and ethical reasoning. 

    Historically, educational assessment has relied on measurable outputs, such as essays, exams, and problem sets that test memorization, comprehension, and technical proficiency. However, AI’s ability to generate these outputs undermines their reliability as indicators of individual effort or understanding. For example, a student can prompt ChatGPT or DeepSeek to write a 1000-word essay on climate change in minutes, complete with citations, which leaves educators grappling with how to distinguish human work from machinegenerated content. This disruption extends beyond writing to mathematics, coding, and even creative tasks, where AI tools like GitHub Copilot and DALL-E provide solutions or artifacts that mimic human ingenuity. As AI becomes a ubiquitous resource, the traditional metrics of learning are no longer fit for purpose. The emergence of generative AI has precipitated what can only be described as an assessment crisis.

    This technological disruption to learning has arrived at a critical juncture. For decades, faculty have critiqued assessment methods that prioritize memorization and formulaic responses over deeper learning. The emergence of sophisticated AI tools has transformed this critique from a theoretical ideal into an immediate practical necessity. We can no longer rely on conventional assessment methods that AI can bypass with ease. I argue that generative AI is not merely challenging our assessment techniques but providing an opportunity to fundamentally realign educational evaluation with more authentic demonstrations of human learning, thinking, and creation.

Source: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/whats-worth-measuring-future-assessment-ai-age
What opportunity does the author associate with the rise of generative AI? 
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Q4361872 Inglês
Read the text and answer question.

What's worth measuring? The future of assessment in the AI age

The rise of AI tools disrupts traditional ideas of assessment, and urges a shift toward promoting and evaluating higher-order thinking, creativity, and ethical reasoning.

By Hrishikesh Desai

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT have fundamentally disrupted traditional notions of assessment in education. When a machine can generate essays, solve complex problems, and even mimic creative writing, educators are forced to ask: What skills should we assess, and how do we evaluate learning in a world where AI can perform tasks once thought uniquely human? This think piece explores the implications of AI for assessment and argues that we must shift from measuring rote knowledge to promoting and evaluating higher-order thinking, creativity, and ethical reasoning. 

    Historically, educational assessment has relied on measurable outputs, such as essays, exams, and problem sets that test memorization, comprehension, and technical proficiency. However, AI’s ability to generate these outputs undermines their reliability as indicators of individual effort or understanding. For example, a student can prompt ChatGPT or DeepSeek to write a 1000-word essay on climate change in minutes, complete with citations, which leaves educators grappling with how to distinguish human work from machinegenerated content. This disruption extends beyond writing to mathematics, coding, and even creative tasks, where AI tools like GitHub Copilot and DALL-E provide solutions or artifacts that mimic human ingenuity. As AI becomes a ubiquitous resource, the traditional metrics of learning are no longer fit for purpose. The emergence of generative AI has precipitated what can only be described as an assessment crisis.

    This technological disruption to learning has arrived at a critical juncture. For decades, faculty have critiqued assessment methods that prioritize memorization and formulaic responses over deeper learning. The emergence of sophisticated AI tools has transformed this critique from a theoretical ideal into an immediate practical necessity. We can no longer rely on conventional assessment methods that AI can bypass with ease. I argue that generative AI is not merely challenging our assessment techniques but providing an opportunity to fundamentally realign educational evaluation with more authentic demonstrations of human learning, thinking, and creation.

Source: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/whats-worth-measuring-future-assessment-ai-age
What criticism of traditional assessment existed before the widespread use of generative AI? 
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Q4361871 Inglês
Read the text and answer question.

What's worth measuring? The future of assessment in the AI age

The rise of AI tools disrupts traditional ideas of assessment, and urges a shift toward promoting and evaluating higher-order thinking, creativity, and ethical reasoning.

By Hrishikesh Desai

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT have fundamentally disrupted traditional notions of assessment in education. When a machine can generate essays, solve complex problems, and even mimic creative writing, educators are forced to ask: What skills should we assess, and how do we evaluate learning in a world where AI can perform tasks once thought uniquely human? This think piece explores the implications of AI for assessment and argues that we must shift from measuring rote knowledge to promoting and evaluating higher-order thinking, creativity, and ethical reasoning. 

    Historically, educational assessment has relied on measurable outputs, such as essays, exams, and problem sets that test memorization, comprehension, and technical proficiency. However, AI’s ability to generate these outputs undermines their reliability as indicators of individual effort or understanding. For example, a student can prompt ChatGPT or DeepSeek to write a 1000-word essay on climate change in minutes, complete with citations, which leaves educators grappling with how to distinguish human work from machinegenerated content. This disruption extends beyond writing to mathematics, coding, and even creative tasks, where AI tools like GitHub Copilot and DALL-E provide solutions or artifacts that mimic human ingenuity. As AI becomes a ubiquitous resource, the traditional metrics of learning are no longer fit for purpose. The emergence of generative AI has precipitated what can only be described as an assessment crisis.

    This technological disruption to learning has arrived at a critical juncture. For decades, faculty have critiqued assessment methods that prioritize memorization and formulaic responses over deeper learning. The emergence of sophisticated AI tools has transformed this critique from a theoretical ideal into an immediate practical necessity. We can no longer rely on conventional assessment methods that AI can bypass with ease. I argue that generative AI is not merely challenging our assessment techniques but providing an opportunity to fundamentally realign educational evaluation with more authentic demonstrations of human learning, thinking, and creation.

Source: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/whats-worth-measuring-future-assessment-ai-age
Why does the author believe traditional assessment outputs have become less reliable?
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Q4361862 Inglês
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‘Our children are less cognitively capable,’ says neuroscientist who wants to cut screen use in schools

Jared Cooney Horvath argues that educational technology undermines how children learn and develop

    Jared Cooney Horvath is on a mission. In the wake of global campaigns for smartphone bans in schools and social media restrictions for under-16s, the neuroscientist wants to raise the alarm about educational technology in classrooms.

    A former teacher, Horvath believes the use of screens and digital tools in schools is undermining how children learn and develop. “This might be one of the hardest truths our generation has to face,” he writes in his book, The Digital Delusion.
    
    “Our children are less cognitively capable than we were at their age,” he says. “For nearly two centuries, the west experienced steady generational progress. Each new cohort of children grew up, on average, healthier, happier, and better educated than the last. Until now.”

    Starting around the year 2000, something changed. “Across the west, IQ scores began to fall – even as time spent in school kept rising,” writes Horvath. Scores in international tests started to drop. Why? “The answer lies in the meteoric rise of educational technology.”

    According to a recent Department for Education report, the UK educational technology – or edtech – market generated an annual turnover of about £6.5bn. In the US, Horvath says it is a $400bn (£295bn) mega-industry, woven into every aspect of schooling.

    “We’ve been making some incredible strides on the screenbased childhood stuff which even two years ago, I did not think was going to happen as fast as it did,” he said. “But it’s not just about getting rid of screens for entertainment. It’s about reducing them as much as possible for academic learning as well if we want our kids to have deep transferrable knowledge in our heads.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/aug/16/neuroscientistscreen-use-schools-educational-technology-jared-cooney-horvath
According to the text, why does Horvath consider the decline in IQ scores particularly significant?
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Q4361861 Inglês
Read the text and answer question

‘Our children are less cognitively capable,’ says neuroscientist who wants to cut screen use in schools

Jared Cooney Horvath argues that educational technology undermines how children learn and develop

    Jared Cooney Horvath is on a mission. In the wake of global campaigns for smartphone bans in schools and social media restrictions for under-16s, the neuroscientist wants to raise the alarm about educational technology in classrooms.

    A former teacher, Horvath believes the use of screens and digital tools in schools is undermining how children learn and develop. “This might be one of the hardest truths our generation has to face,” he writes in his book, The Digital Delusion.
    
    “Our children are less cognitively capable than we were at their age,” he says. “For nearly two centuries, the west experienced steady generational progress. Each new cohort of children grew up, on average, healthier, happier, and better educated than the last. Until now.”

    Starting around the year 2000, something changed. “Across the west, IQ scores began to fall – even as time spent in school kept rising,” writes Horvath. Scores in international tests started to drop. Why? “The answer lies in the meteoric rise of educational technology.”

    According to a recent Department for Education report, the UK educational technology – or edtech – market generated an annual turnover of about £6.5bn. In the US, Horvath says it is a $400bn (£295bn) mega-industry, woven into every aspect of schooling.

    “We’ve been making some incredible strides on the screenbased childhood stuff which even two years ago, I did not think was going to happen as fast as it did,” he said. “But it’s not just about getting rid of screens for entertainment. It’s about reducing them as much as possible for academic learning as well if we want our kids to have deep transferrable knowledge in our heads.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/aug/16/neuroscientistscreen-use-schools-educational-technology-jared-cooney-horvath
Based on the text, classify the statements below as True (T) or False (F).

I. Horvath believes that concern about children's screen use should extend beyond entertainment to the use of digital tools for academic purposes.
II. Horvath claims that generational improvements in health, happiness, and education had continued consistently in the West after the year 2000.
III. Horvath suggests that reducing academic screen use could help children develop deeper knowledge that can be transferred to different contexts.
IV. Horvath states that he expected progress in reducing screenbased childhood to occur as rapidly as it has.

Choose the correct sequence. 
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Q4361860 Inglês
Read the text and answer question

‘Our children are less cognitively capable,’ says neuroscientist who wants to cut screen use in schools

Jared Cooney Horvath argues that educational technology undermines how children learn and develop

    Jared Cooney Horvath is on a mission. In the wake of global campaigns for smartphone bans in schools and social media restrictions for under-16s, the neuroscientist wants to raise the alarm about educational technology in classrooms.

    A former teacher, Horvath believes the use of screens and digital tools in schools is undermining how children learn and develop. “This might be one of the hardest truths our generation has to face,” he writes in his book, The Digital Delusion.
    
    “Our children are less cognitively capable than we were at their age,” he says. “For nearly two centuries, the west experienced steady generational progress. Each new cohort of children grew up, on average, healthier, happier, and better educated than the last. Until now.”

    Starting around the year 2000, something changed. “Across the west, IQ scores began to fall – even as time spent in school kept rising,” writes Horvath. Scores in international tests started to drop. Why? “The answer lies in the meteoric rise of educational technology.”

    According to a recent Department for Education report, the UK educational technology – or edtech – market generated an annual turnover of about £6.5bn. In the US, Horvath says it is a $400bn (£295bn) mega-industry, woven into every aspect of schooling.

    “We’ve been making some incredible strides on the screenbased childhood stuff which even two years ago, I did not think was going to happen as fast as it did,” he said. “But it’s not just about getting rid of screens for entertainment. It’s about reducing them as much as possible for academic learning as well if we want our kids to have deep transferrable knowledge in our heads.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/aug/16/neuroscientistscreen-use-schools-educational-technology-jared-cooney-horvath
What is the main argument presented in the text?
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Q4358828 Inglês
Students were asked to perform the following sequence of activities: (a) analyse the systemic organization of the text’s components, for example, intentionality, informativeness; (b) perform the guessing of unknown word meaning through text clues; (c) distinguish among core information and detail by applying inference strategies; (d) identify some of the cohesive connections that integrate the net of information. The actions developed indicate skills and competencies belonging in:
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Q4358821 Inglês

        Trump gave what was billed as a “Christmas speech” in rural Pennsylvania this past week that began with his “wishing each and everyone one of you a very merry Christmas, happy New Year, all of that stuff” and boasting that now, under his presidency: “Everybody’s saying ‘merry Christmas’ again.” He then claimed – contrary to the experience of nearly everyone in the crowd – that he had gotten them “lower prices” and “bigger paychecks”.


        He was supposed to talk about affordability, but Trump’s narcissistic brain seemed incapable of the minimal empathy to recognize the public’s angst over the cost of living. So he veered far off the affordability script to attack Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota congresswoman, ridicule windmills. Small wonder that most voters have had it with Trump.


        In Indiana this past week, Republican senators rejected a redistricting plan that Trump had tried to bully them into accepting. Twenty-one senators from the Republican majority in the Indiana senate and all 10 senate Democrats voted it down. Even congressional Republicans are starting to desert him as they see that the wannabe emperor has no clothes. They’ve rejected his demand to end the filibuster, rebuked his incipient healthcare plan, forced him to cave on the Epstein files, won’t approve his bonkers $2,000 tariff checks for Americans, fret about his boat strikes off the coasts of Central and South America, and are in open rebellion against his hand-picked speaker of the House. Trump won’t steal Christmas, but it’s looking increasingly likely that Christmas will steal Trump.


(Available in: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/. Adapted. Accessed on: January 2026.)



The study of text genres helps readers understand why a text is written and how it's structured, improving comprehension and writing skills. The previous text was introduced for examination, and students led to identify its purpose and structural features, having their guide in the text’s general idea which is:

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Q4357882 Inglês

TEXT V

Turn on your light

by Ben Okri

[…]

Will you be at the harvest,

Among the gatherers of new fruits?

Then you must begin today to remake

Your mental and spiritual world,

And join the warriors and celebrants

Of freedom, realisers of great dreams.

You can't remake the world

Without remaking yourself.

Each new era begins within.

It is an inward event,

With unsuspected possibilities

For inner liberation.

We could use it to turn on

Our inward lights.

We could use it to use even the dark

And negative things positively.

We could use the new era

To clean our eyes,

To see the world differently,

To see ourselves more clearly.

Only free people can make a free world.

Infect the world with your light.

Help fulfill the golden prophecies.

Press forward the human genius.

Our future is greater than our past.

Adapted from https://greatturning.net/turn-on-your-light-by-ben-okri/

Scanning is a useful reading strategy that helps answer specific questions. In this sense, the question that asks the student to scan is: 
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Q4357881 Inglês

TEXT V

Turn on your light

by Ben Okri

[…]

Will you be at the harvest,

Among the gatherers of new fruits?

Then you must begin today to remake

Your mental and spiritual world,

And join the warriors and celebrants

Of freedom, realisers of great dreams.

You can't remake the world

Without remaking yourself.

Each new era begins within.

It is an inward event,

With unsuspected possibilities

For inner liberation.

We could use it to turn on

Our inward lights.

We could use it to use even the dark

And negative things positively.

We could use the new era

To clean our eyes,

To see the world differently,

To see ourselves more clearly.

Only free people can make a free world.

Infect the world with your light.

Help fulfill the golden prophecies.

Press forward the human genius.

Our future is greater than our past.

Adapted from https://greatturning.net/turn-on-your-light-by-ben-okri/

The poem ends with a note of 
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Q4357880 Inglês

TEXT V

Turn on your light

by Ben Okri

[…]

Will you be at the harvest,

Among the gatherers of new fruits?

Then you must begin today to remake

Your mental and spiritual world,

And join the warriors and celebrants

Of freedom, realisers of great dreams.

You can't remake the world

Without remaking yourself.

Each new era begins within.

It is an inward event,

With unsuspected possibilities

For inner liberation.

We could use it to turn on

Our inward lights.

We could use it to use even the dark

And negative things positively.

We could use the new era

To clean our eyes,

To see the world differently,

To see ourselves more clearly.

Only free people can make a free world.

Infect the world with your light.

Help fulfill the golden prophecies.

Press forward the human genius.

Our future is greater than our past.

Adapted from https://greatturning.net/turn-on-your-light-by-ben-okri/

The modal verb in “Then you must begin today” (3rd line) expresses  
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Q4357879 Inglês

TEXT V

Turn on your light

by Ben Okri

[…]

Will you be at the harvest,

Among the gatherers of new fruits?

Then you must begin today to remake

Your mental and spiritual world,

And join the warriors and celebrants

Of freedom, realisers of great dreams.

You can't remake the world

Without remaking yourself.

Each new era begins within.

It is an inward event,

With unsuspected possibilities

For inner liberation.

We could use it to turn on

Our inward lights.

We could use it to use even the dark

And negative things positively.

We could use the new era

To clean our eyes,

To see the world differently,

To see ourselves more clearly.

Only free people can make a free world.

Infect the world with your light.

Help fulfill the golden prophecies.

Press forward the human genius.

Our future is greater than our past.

Adapted from https://greatturning.net/turn-on-your-light-by-ben-okri/

The literal meaning of the word “harvest” in “Will you be at the harvest […]?” refers to the moment of
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Q4357878 Inglês

TEXT V

Turn on your light

by Ben Okri

[…]

Will you be at the harvest,

Among the gatherers of new fruits?

Then you must begin today to remake

Your mental and spiritual world,

And join the warriors and celebrants

Of freedom, realisers of great dreams.

You can't remake the world

Without remaking yourself.

Each new era begins within.

It is an inward event,

With unsuspected possibilities

For inner liberation.

We could use it to turn on

Our inward lights.

We could use it to use even the dark

And negative things positively.

We could use the new era

To clean our eyes,

To see the world differently,

To see ourselves more clearly.

Only free people can make a free world.

Infect the world with your light.

Help fulfill the golden prophecies.

Press forward the human genius.

Our future is greater than our past.

Adapted from https://greatturning.net/turn-on-your-light-by-ben-okri/

The aim of this poem is to 
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Q4357876 Inglês
If the vehicle is “towed away”, this means it will be 
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Q4357873 Inglês
According to the BNCC, students should infer information from diverse texts in different spheres of circulation (EF08LI05). Following this guideline, the teacher may organize the class in pairs and ask them to infer the meaning of this road sign.
The correct answer is: 
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Q4357869 Inglês

Based on Text III, analyse the assertions below: I. Non-native speakers of English are less than half the number of native speakers. II. Currently, hardly any websites opt to use English. III. English is widely spoken in India and in other countries. Choose the correct answer.
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Q4357868 Inglês

According to the BNCC (p. 61): “Young people have become increasingly engaged as protagonists of digital culture, directly involving themselves in new forms of multimedia and multimodal interaction and social action online.”.
Match the numbers to their corresponding letters in order to create a coherent sentence.


1. Please update
2. Stay in
3. Don’t be
4. It’s not the end
5. Forget the fear

a. of missing out.
b. glued to the screen.
c. your status.
d. touch with everyone.
e. of the world.


The correct sequence is:  

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Q4357866 Inglês
When asking students to produce texts, the teacher may offer a panel from a comic strip and ask them to fill the bubbles with the sentences that match the image. 

Imagem associada para resolução da questão

In this case, the most coherent choice to each bubble is, respectively:
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Q4357863 Inglês
The verb “strives” means to 
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Q4357862 Inglês
In this quote, the conjunction “whereas” introduces a(n) 
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Respostas
1: D
2: C
3: A
4: A
5: E
6: B
7: B
8: B
9: C
10: A
11: D
12: B
13: A
14: B
15: E
16: C
17: B
18: C
19: D
20: A