[Air-L] New CDT research report - Opening the Book: A Rubric to Support Effective Transparency for EdTech Products that Incorporate AI

[Dhanaraj Thakur]

Hi everyone,

Today we published the latest research report from theCenter for 
Democracy & Technology: Opening the Book: A Rubric to Support Effective 
Transparency for EdTech Products that Incorporate AI 
<https://cdt.org/insights/opening-the-book-a-rubric-to-support-effective-transparency-for-edtech-products-that-incorporate-ai/>.

Led by my amazing colleaguesHannah Quay-de la Vallee,Morgan Badurak, 
andElizabeth Laird, we started with a concern about the current state of 
transparency in edtech products in the K–12 context that incorporate AI. 
We developed a rubric of eight key elements of AI transparency, and then 
used that to assess over 100 edtech companies.

We found that:
- On average, edtech companies offer very little transparency about 
their products incorporate AI.
- When they attempt to be transparent, the information is often focused 
on select categories, such as Use and Context Limitations and 
Information Accessibility.
- When we grouped companies based on their performance across categories 
in our rubric, we found that some companies were trying to make 
information available and understandable, but were not doing so in a 
comprehensive way. If this is the case, we argue that these and other 
edtech companies could benefit from using our rubric to improve their 
transparency and help school administrators make more informed decisions 
about which edtech products to use.

As always, we welcome feedback and feel free to share.


take care,

Dhanaraj



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*Dhanaraj Thakur* (he/him) | Research Director
Center for Democracy & Technology |*cdt.org <https://cdt.org/>*
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