AI investigations in past three years

Date published: 20/05/2025

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)