FLARE - Flipped learning & AI for Reflective Education

Designing learning around assessment for learning

Lauri Hellsten, Finland

STEM teacher at Espoon yhteislyseo 

Adjunct lecturer at University of Helsinki

Assistant member of the Matriculation examination board

ASEF ClassNet EmpowerEd Project 2025 & 2026


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"Assessment guides studying and learning more than any other factor in a learning situation"

- Entwistle & Entwistle, 1992; Hodgson & Pang, 2012;  Segers & Dochy, 2006; Struyven, Dochy & Janssens, 2005

"The purpose of student assessment is to guide and encourage learning and to develop students' self-assessment skills. Students' learning and work should be assessed in a variety of ways."

-Finnish High school law 17 §

Making learning visible

  • Self-assessment
  • Low-stakes checks
  • Visual learning paths
  • Peer feedback
  • ...

What does the student need right now?

  • Teacher guidance
  • Peer support
  • Differentiated task
  • Further practice
  • ...

Example on guided self-assessment

I understand this so well I could
teach it to a friend.

I feel I have understood this.
 

I feel I somehow understand this, but there still is something unclear to me.

I need more practice and time to understand this.

This is not included in my studies.

Where AI fits?

  • Formative assessment tells us what support is needed.
  • AI can help teacher design possible responses.
    • But the teacher decides what is pedagogically appropriate.
  • clear measurable learning goals
  • language support
  • scaffolded questions
  • guided self-assessment
  • diffentiated materials
  • ...

Educators empowering educators

  • Different cultures.
  • Different subjects.
  • Different curricula.
  • Different AI policies.

One shared design question:

How can assessment better support learning?

EmpowerED gave teachers a space to

compare, question, design and adapt

— and take those ideas back to their own classrooms.

70+ teachers, 20+ countries, 2025 & 2026

Teacher agency grows when we are given space to:

  • try
  • share
  • question
  • design 
  • adapt and
  • make mistakes

What did I learn?

And that you can always learn from other teachers, cultures and education systems.

Opin sauna, autuas aina.

-an old Finnish proverb about the value of lifelong learning

Thank you!

lauri.hellsten(at)opetus.espoo.fi