Chen Liang, Director of the Education Bureau of Gongshu District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, delivered a keynote speech titled "Making Growth Visible: Regional Education Evaluation Reform Driven by Artificial Intelligence" at the parallel session on "AI Education Development and Evaluation" during the 2026 World Digital Education Conference.

He pointed out that in the face of four major obstacles in the process of education evaluation—"incomplete visibility of growth, difficulty in explaining the process, heavy evaluation burden, and difficulty in transforming data"—Gongshu District has developed a competency assessment model called iPRT. iPRT is a four-in-one systematic framework consisting of Indicators, Projects, Rubrics and Technology. Following a five-step process—"set indicators, design tasks, develop rubrics, collect evidence, and facilitate improvement"—the model transforms educational goals into observable, recordable, analyzable and improvable student performances. Under the iPRT framework, AI plays key roles: intelligently generating goal-oriented tasks, automatically collecting multi-source data, deeply analysing competency structures, and visualising growth reports.

He stressed that truly valuable digital education does not make education rigid and standardised; rather, it makes it fairer, higher in quality, and more humane. It does not cause teachers to worry about technology; instead, it enables them to become more confident, more professional, and more empowered. It does not reduce students to data labels; on the contrary, it helps ensure that every child's growth is better seen.