Abstract
A central challenge in AI educational assessment and football pool forecasting is to compare studies whose mechanisms and validation settings do not share a single denominator. The present review uses AI-based student-performance prediction as a case study in educational assessment and a football-lottery playing method that converts match judgments into ticket combinations as focal cases for a boundary-aware synthesis. The review draws on two focal records and 12 established sources already present in the project evidence cache. Its comparative framework links construct validity, data drift, and fairness to downstream questions of explainability and teacher oversight. The combined literature indicates that methodological gains become actionable only when construct validity and data drift are evaluated together and when limits associated with teacher oversight are explicit. This shifts the emphasis from isolated scores toward traceable chains of evidence and decision relevance. The contribution is a decision-oriented synthesis that connects method selection to failure cost and treats reproducibility, provenance, and bounded generalization as first-order design requirements.
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