AI investigations in past three years
FOI reference: FOI25/25 001
Date received: 01/04/2025
Date responded: 29/04/2025
Information requested
Please see below a request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act. To ask how many investigations the SQA has carried out in relation to cheating by use of artificial intelligence (AI) in each of the past three years. In addition, how many penalties were issued as a result, and what were the nature of these penalties? Could this be broken down by year and either school or local authority area.
Response
The information is contained within the document below.
Please note that we have applied disclosure control on the numbers that are less than 5 to avoid potential identification of individuals. However, we have provided the total number of investigations and also the relevant local authorities.
Documents:
Information sheet (20 KB)
Related Information
- Subject access request form
- SQA Publication Scheme (180 KB)
- SQA Record of Processing (49 KB)