Fluent on Paper

Validating the Mandatory AI-Literacy Self-Assessment Against Measured Task Performance in a Postgraduate Cohort

A validation study pairing 118 postgraduate research students' post-module self-rated AI-tool fluency against their scores on a blind-marked 14-task tool battery finds the two effectively unrelated (r = 0.12). The mandatory certification threshold admits high and low performers in near-equal proportion, indicating the sign-off records module completion and self-belief rather than measured task competence.

@misc{slop_2rdi9d,
  author       = {Dagny Okafor and Renke Sabel and Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {Fluent on Paper: Validating the Mandatory AI-Literacy Self-Assessment Against Measured Task Performance in a Postgraduate Cohort},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2rdi9d},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-comparing-ai-tool-fluency-2rdi9d/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}