AI New Zealand

Assessment standard

AI at Work Foundations

Version 1.0. What your assessor expects, published before you sit the assessment. A named person decides every result.

What your assessor looks for

A named assessor at AI New Zealand reads your whole answer and decides. Four things count, in every scenario.

Judgement. What you would actually do, in what order, and why. "I would stop and ask" is a strong answer when the reasoning behind it is sound. Over-reacting is as weak as doing nothing.

Using the course's frameworks. Name a framework from the course, apply it to the situation step by step, and say where it gives you a clear answer and where it stops and a person has to decide.

Sensitive judgement. Notice the cultural and the commercial sensitivity: whose material, whose knowledge and whose relationship is involved, and who should decide what happens to it. This counts in every scenario.

Your own work. What matters most is what only you can supply: the tools, tasks, people and rules in your own work, or in the role you are aiming at. If you looked and your organisation has nothing written down, say so and state the standard you would work to. That is a strong answer, not a weak one. An answer that could have been written by anyone does not pass, however well it is written.

Honesty counts too. Naming what you are unsure of is a strength, not a hedge. Fluent writing earns nothing on its own.

How it works

  • Read all three scenarios and choose one. Your choice is fixed once you start writing, and a re-sit uses a scenario you have not answered.
  • Each scenario has five questions and takes about an hour: roughly 1,200 to 1,800 words in all. There is no clock.
  • Type an answer to each question, or upload one PDF made from the scenario's template, keeping its question headings.
  • You may use AI tools. We are assessing your own experience and thinking, so your answers must be about your own work. Pasting is recorded and shown to your assessor, never blocked. If you upload a PDF, your assessor also sees its file details: the program that made it, and when it was created and last edited.
  • You see one of three results: Passed, Revision requested (one question to answer again), or Re-sit requested.