Student AI-use process sheet: first attempt, prompt, check, revise (P4-P6)

• StageP4-P6
• SubjectCross-curricular
• Learning strandreflection on the application of AI
• Official documentsAI Literacy Learning Framework for Primary and Secondary Schools · Guide to Using AI in Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools
• Session time10 min briefing + task time

A reusable process sheet that records a student's first attempt, the AI prompt, the checking results, revisions, and final explanation, so teachers can see the student's thinking without having to search through the entire conversation log.

• AudienceTeachers Students
• ThemeStudent thinking

• EquipmentPrinted worksheet (optional: student devices)
• Version2.7
• Last updated2026-10-17

What this solves

When students use AI to complete their work, teachers often see only the finished product — they cannot tell what the student thought for themselves, what the AI contributed, or whether the student checked anything. Asking students to hand over the entire conversation log is neither practical nor good for privacy.

This process sheet fixes the process in place with five boxes — manageable for students to fill in, and visible to teachers.

The sheet can sit in a school’s digital education planning and be used across subjects as a formative assessment tool, with learning data handled in a school-based way. It records the prompt the pupil wrote, the questions they put to the AI and their reflection, and closes with a statement that makes them answerable for the academic integrity of the work.

Learning objectives

Students will be able to:

1. Attempt the task themselves before using AI (keeping their own initial thinking).
2. Record the prompt they used and explain why they asked it that way.
3. Check the AI’s output and point out at least one place that needs verifying or changing.
4. Explain how the final version differs from the first attempt, and why.

It covers the reflection on the application of AI strand of AI literacy, with critical thinking and responsibility, keeping human judgement first.

How to use it

1. Briefing (5 min) — Project the process sheet and explain what to write in each of the five boxes; stress that the “first attempt” must be written before opening the AI.
2. Demonstration (5 min) — Use one question to demonstrate how to check an AI’s answer (for example, by comparing what the AI says against the textbook / an official source).
3. Task (students complete independently) — Students fill in the sheet as they work.
4. Collection and feedback — The teacher can judge the learning process from the process sheet alone, without reading through the conversation.
5. Optional extension — Pick three process sheets (anonymised) and discuss as a class: whose checking is the most convincing?

Box 4 is the key to the whole sheet. If a student cannot complete box 4, it means they did not check, and the teacher can follow up immediately.

Answer key and marking notes

• Complete box 1 first. If a student opens the AI before writing, the sheet loses its point; it is worth completing box 1 together in class first.
• Box 4 does not need to be long. One sentence — “I checked textbook p.42, and the AI got the year wrong” — is already enough.
• Do not ask for the full conversation log. The whole point of the process sheet is to replace that practice, and to reduce the collection of student data.
• Works for any subject. The sheet is not tied to a particular subject — mathematics, science, and languages all work.

Files

Student AI-use process sheet(editable Word document)

Official documents

Every resource in this library is written to the AI Literacy Learning Framework for Primary and Secondary Schools and falls within the policy scope of the Blueprint for Digital Education Development in Primary and Secondary Schools.

This resource maps to:

• Supplement I: AI Literacy Learning Framework for Primary and Secondary Schools (p.1-13): values process and authentic assessment rather than judging only the final result.
• Supplement II: Guide to Using AI in Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools (p.2-8): recommends checking students’ learning and AI use through oral questioning and the submission of their thinking process.

Learning strand: reflection on the application of AI

Official documents page: https://www.edb.gov.hk/en/edu-system/primary-secondary/applicable-to-primary-secondary/it-in-edu/debp.html

This page is an independent Beets teaching resource, not an official EDB document.

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