Xiaowan Zhang
Author directory2026
Responsible AI in the Duolingo English Test: Case Studies with Automatic Item Creation and Session-Level Quality Monitoring
Siyuan Marco Chen | Xiaowan Zhang | Andrew Runge | Jacqueline Church
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Coordinated Session Papers
Siyuan Marco Chen | Xiaowan Zhang | Andrew Runge | Jacqueline Church
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Coordinated Session Papers
Digital-first assessments are delivered continuously and often remotely. Artificial intelligence (AI) enables digital assessments to generate content and administer tests at scale. Like any system used for high-stakes decision-making, digital assessments require responsible AI (RAI) practices to ensure fairness and validity. This paper presents two deployed systems in the Duolingo English Test (DET) lifecycle that align the DET to its RAI Standards. The Item Factory combines automated item generation with staged expert review; the Analytics for Quality Assurance in Test Taker (AQUA-TT) system applies unsupervised anomaly detection methods to continuously monitor for issues in digital test deliveries for daily individual test sessions. We present the design and performance of these systems and discuss what they imply for placing human judgment inside digital assessments.