Denmark's Expert Group on ChatGPT and Exams — 'Two-Legged' Assessment with and without AI Aids, Followed by Four Announced National Exam Trials

Denmark's then Minister for Children and Education, Mattias Tesfaye, appointed an expert group on ChatGPT and other digital aids, chaired by Birgitte Vedersø (independent consultant, former head of Danske Gymnasier). Its preliminary recommendations (December 2023) focused mainly on controlling and monitoring the exam situation. Its final recommendations, presented in late April 2024 and covering folkeskole and youth and adult education, moved on to exam design.
The group proposed three exam formats that can incorporate AI: case-based exams (fully or partly in groups, in the classroom so students can get teacher help), portfolio exams and project exams. It stressed that exams without aids should remain: 'We still believe that it's important to test students in the old-fashioned way without aids', and argued that if the sole focus is the end product it is 'incredibly easy to cheat with AI'. It also judged it unrealistic to expect reliable plagiarism checkers for language models, which is why assessment design rather than detection is the centre of the approach.
The minister said changes would be unlikely before spring 2025 and announced four trials for schools to test new exam methods in 2025, with possible wider use in 2026. A later EVA mapping (March 2025) notes that its identified exam paths reflect the expert group's recommendation of exams that test both with and without digital aids.
Evidence caveats: the recommendations are an expert policy judgment, not an evaluation of outcomes; the results of the trials are not covered here, and an AI researcher quoted in the press noted that teachers' knowledge of appropriate chatbot use is still not well developed. The Danish gymnasium association later called ministry initiatives built on the group's proposals 'quite inadequate' for the shift AI represents in upper secondary schools.

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