FERPA, COPPA and Student Privacy with AI Quiz

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1. Under FERPA's school official exception, what condition must an outside AI vendor meet?
   • It must be a nonprofit organization
   • It must be under the school's direct control regarding use and maintenance of the data
   • It must store all data outside the United States
   • It must obtain consent from each student individually
2. COPPA's consent requirements apply to personal information collected from children of what age?
   • Under 18
   • Under 16
   • Under 13
   • Under 10
3. Which agency enforces COPPA?
   • The Federal Trade Commission
   • The US Department of Education's Student Privacy Policy Office
   • The Federal Communications Commission
   • State boards of education
4. When do FERPA rights transfer from parents to the student?
   • When the student enters middle school
   • At age 16
   • When the student gets their first job
   • At age 18 or on entering postsecondary education
5. Under FTC guidance, a school may consent to COPPA data collection on parents' behalf only when:
   • The vendor pays the school a licensing fee
   • The data is used for the educational purpose, not the vendor's commercial purposes
   • The student is over 10
   • The parents have not objected in writing within 30 days
6. Why might removing students' names from an essay still leave it identifiable?
   • AI tools can always recover deleted names
   • FERPA only counts social security numbers as identifiers
   • Indirect details, alone or combined, can be linked to a specific student
   • Names are stored in the file's metadata automatically
7. A vendor advertises that its AI tool is 'FERPA compliant.' What is the most accurate response?
   • Compliance is the school's obligation and depends on the agreement and how the tool is used
   • The label means the school needs no contract
   • The label means data can never be used for training
   • FERPA does not apply to AI tools, so the label is meaningless for any reason
8. Which statement about FERPA and AI tools is correct?
   • FERPA bans all use of generative AI in K-12 schools
   • FERPA governs disclosure of education records rather than banning particular tools
   • FERPA only applies to private schools
   • Parents can sue teachers directly in federal court under FERPA