Credit: fauxels from Pexels Professional learning and student assessment in schools is set to be transformed, thanks to a first of its kind advance in education technology led by the University of Glasgow. Education experts are launching a new platform that will help teachers to make informed professional judgments in real time, by leveraging advances in artificial intelligence to automate the capture and analysis of evidence of practice. Through positioning teachers at the center of evidence of practice, educational research, and experiential knowledge, Deliberative Instructional Agents (DIAs) shift professional learning from an often disconnected and retrospective activity, to one that is continuous and embedded within real-time teaching. The ongoing professional development of teachers is fundamentally important for the quality of education, and has been shown to improve teacher satisfaction and retention, and pupil learning outcomes.…