Education and specialised fields
Vocational training and programme management
The problem
AI reads a rise in the employment rate as proof the programme worked and proposes publishing every breakdown. In small groups one person moves the rate by several points, and a single hidden cell can be rebuilt by subtraction from the totals.
30 courses · 5 specific to this profession
A process from your work
How much of your week goes on preparing lessons?
- Step 1From the topic and objectives you give it, the tool proposes a lesson plan and materials.
- Step 2You choose, adapt and check all material before using it with the group.
- Step 3What is taught and how it is assessed stays the teacher's or the trainer's decision.
- Where the tool goes wrongThe facts, definitions or exercise answers the tool suggests may not be right.
- The verification stepCompare every fact and definition with the programme or approved textbook, and work the exercises yourself.
More: what was measured and the full check
What changed, as measured
Teachers using ChatGPT with a guide spent around 56.2 minutes a week on preparation against 81.5 in the comparison group, saving 25.3 minutes a week on average.
Who was measured: Lower secondary science teachers in schools in England, randomised to prepare with ChatGPT and a guide, or as before.
The caveat: School teachers, not vocational trainers; most used the new approach for only part of their timetable.
The check, step by step
- Compare every fact, definition and example in the material with the programme or the approved textbook.
- Work the exercises yourself and check that the answers the tool suggests are right.
- Adapt the level and the language to your group; remove anything you have not checked.
- Keep a note of which materials started from the tool and what you changed.
The course covers a teacher's or trainer's daily workflow with AI: lesson planning, materials and assessment, with a human check at every step.
We can help you with this process: “Teaching and training AI: Workflow”, 8 hours.
A documented failure pattern
Full attendance, not certification: 12 of 12
- What the tool doesA sentence from a mobility project's final report, drafted by an AI tool for the programme manager who sends the report to the funder, shown next to the project table it was drafted from.
- Where the tool goes wrongThe draft says participants “were certified”, but the table records only attendance, no assessment.
- The verification stepFind the table column behind every outcome verb; without an assessment, do not write “certified”.
More: why it is easy to miss and the full check
Where the tool goes wrong, and why it is easy to miss
The table records only participation and attendance, but the draft adds two claims that are not in it: “successfully” and “were certified”. The usual check of the figures does not catch this, because the 12 in the sentence matches the 12 in the table. The error is in the verb, not the number. The tool dropped exactly the detail that limits the claim, the row “assessment not carried out”, and closed the paragraph with an outcome, as final reports usually end. In VET, under Article 29(1) of Law no. 15/2017, a vocational qualification certificate is issued after a formal assessment process, so without an assessment the words “were certified” have no basis. If the sentence moves from the report into an accreditation file or onto participants' certificates, the unsupported claim is repeated in official documents.
The check that catches it
- Underline every outcome verb in the draft (“successfully completed”, “earned”, “were certified”, “achieved”) and find the table column that supports each one.
- Read the assessment column, not only the headcount: 12 with full attendance does not mean 12 assessed.
- Where the assessment is missing, rewrite the sentence using only what the table shows, for example: “12 participants attended the whole placement; learning outcomes were not assessed.”
- Before the sentence goes onto certificates or into the accreditation file, ask for each participant's formal assessment results. Without them, do not write “certified”.
Where the failure pattern is documented: Peer-reviewed academic study (Royal Society Open Science, 2025-04), incident report (Associated Press, 2025-10) and academic study (Scientific Reports, 2023-09).Sources: Royal Society Open Science, 2025; Associated Press, 2025; Scientific Reports, 2023.The case above is ours, written for work in Albania; the laws it names were checked against the official text.
What it looks like
The tool's draft"All 12 participants successfully completed the mobility and were certified for the competences gained during the placement."
The project table"Participants: 12. Full attendance: 12. Assessment of learning outcomes: not carried out."
Translated from the Albanian original.
Specialist courses for this profession
Teaching and training AI: Orientation
Teaching and training AI: Workflow
Teaching and training AI: Documents and communication
Teaching and training AI: Data and analytics
Teaching and training AI: Quality and evaluation
What you leave with
The monitoring note gives each rate with its numerator and denominator, differences in percentage points and the result of the table check for subtraction, with the analysis kept apart from the release decision. A funder can recompute it number by number before release.
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