KINGSTON, Jamaica—The Jamaica Teachers’ Association is calling on the Ministry of Education to urgently convene a meeting with teachers, school leaders, students, parents, assessment specialists, universities and technology experts to develop a national policy on the responsible use of artificial intelligence in education.

This call follows an announcement by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) on Thursday of reforms to its School-Based Assessment (SBA) framework, which it said aims to strengthen assessment integrity across Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, in response to the rapid rise of Generative AI (artificial intelligence) and other technological innovations.

According to CXC, the move intends to resist the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the learning process, but rather to safeguard the integrity of the assessment process as learners and the regional education system continues to adjust to the scale of the impact of AI on Caribbean education.