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The End of Assessment: Why All Performance-Based Evaluation Is Now Structurally Meaningless

Split image showing examination room on left transitioning through lightning bolt to exploding test papers on right, illustrating categorical collapse of assessment infrastructure in 2024

Assessment did not gradually decline as AI improved. It did not face mounting pressure requiring adaptation. It did not encounter challenges demanding better methodology. Assessment collapsed as a coherent category in 2024. This is not hyperbole. This is not alarmism. This is structural description of what happened when AI crossed the capability threshold where generating The End of Assessment: Why All Performance-Based Evaluation Is Now Structurally Meaningless