Abstract
The advent of artificial intelligence is affecting the way and manner things are been done in almost all the areas of human endeavour, the educational system not an exception and particularly in testing. The paper examined assessment of lecturers' perception of using artificial intelligence for testing in Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State. The descriptive survey research design was adopted. Two research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. Population of the study comprised 400 academic staff (lecturers). Sample size was 300 selected using the stratified random sampling technique. Instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled: “Lecturers' Perception of Artificial Intelligence for Testing Questionnaire” (LPAITQ). The reliability coefficient of the instrument was determined using test-retest and yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.72 (r = 0.72). The research questions were answered with mean and standard deviation, while the hypothesis was tested using the independent t-test. The result of the study revealed that lecturers' perception of using artificial intelligence for testing was positive, there was no significant difference in the lecturers' perception of using artificial intelligence based on gender. The study recommended that lecturers in the university system should update their knowledge through conferences, seminars and workshops on artificial intelligence use in testing.