# Research

External research and articles on AI in education.

Concept type: `research` · 26 entries

## Concepts

* [6 Tenets of Postplagiarism: Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence](/articles/6-tenets-of-postplagiarism.md) - Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton explores how AI is reshaping writing and academic integrity in “6 Tenets of Postplagiarism.”
* [Study: AI-Assisted Tutoring Boosts Students’ Math Skills](/articles/ai-assisted-tutoring-boosts-math.md) - A paper on using an LLM to support human tutors. Tutors became more effective, and the weakest tutors gained the most.
* [AI Helps Math Teachers Build Better "Scaffolds"](/articles/ai-better-scaffolds.md) - This article describes a study investigating techniques to help teachers incorporate better scaffolds in their middle school math classrooms.
* [The AI Era Demands Curriculum Redesign: Stories from the Frontlines of Change](/articles/ai-era-demands-curricculum-redesign.md) - A teacher’s assessment practice: grading students’ chat histories with an LLM, so they think more deeply about the content and how they use AI.
* [AI for Educators: The University of Sydney](/articles/ai-for-educators.md) - Resources and guidelines for higher-education instructors, with AI use cases for planning, assessment and working with students.
* [AI Tutoring Outperforms Active Learning](/articles/ai-tutoring-outperforms-active-learning.md) - An AI tutor built on pedagogy best practices helped students learn more, in less time, than an active, instructor-led lesson.
* [Automated Feedback Improves Teachers’ Questioning Quality in Brick-and-Mortar Classrooms](/articles/automated-feedback-improvements.md) - An AI tool analyzed transcripts of teachers’ instruction and gave feedback on “focusing questions.” Questioning changed; other instruction did not.
* [Beyond CheatBots: Examining Tensions in Teachers and Students Perceptions of Cheating and Learning with ChatGPT](/articles/beyond-cheatbots.md) - In this study, the authors explored tensions in teachers’ and students’ opinions about what constitutes learning and cheating with AI.
* [Can AI Help Kids Feel Creative?](/articles/can-ai-help-kids-feel-creative.md) - Creativity shapes children’s development, identity and learning, but their creative experiences with AI are often left out of the conversation.
* [How do students use ChatGPT as a writing support?](/articles/chatgpt-as-writing-support.md) - The authors walk through the historical process of writing and how that can and has changed with the advent of ChatGPT.
* [ChatGPT in lesson preparation – Teacher Choices trial](/articles/chatgpt-lesson-preparation.md) - The UK’s Education Endowment Foundation conducted a trial looking at the effects of AI in teachers’ lesson preparation in KS3 (middle school) science teachers.
* [Does ChatGPT enhance student learning? A systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental studies](/articles/chatgpt-student-learning.md) - This meta-analysis of ChatGPT use in the classroom suggests it improves academic performance and motivation while reducing student effort.
* [Cheating in the age of generative AI: A high school survey study of cheating behaviors before and after the release of ChatGPT](/articles/cheating-in-age-of-genai.md) - Researchers used anonymous survey data from three high schools to see whether self-reported cheating changed after ChatGPT arrived.
* [A Classroom Teacher’s Take on AI - The Effortful Educator](/articles/classroom-teachers-take-ai.md) - Blake Harvard, a high school psychology teacher, wrote this blog post on AI from a classroom teacher’s point of view.
* [Collaborating with AI Agents: Field Experiments on Teamwork, Productivity, and Performance](/articles/collaborating-ai-agents.md) - An experiment randomly assigned human-human and human-AI teams to create marketing materials, with the AI given a range of “personality” traits.
* [The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI Reshaping Teamwork and Expertise](/articles/cybernetic-teammate.md) - At Procter & Gamble, individuals using GenAI performed as well as teams, and teams using GenAI were most likely to produce exceptional solutions.
* [Evaluating large language models in analysing classroom dialogue](/articles/evaluating-llms-in-analysing-classroom-dialogue.md) - A study comparing an LLM with human researchers analyzing classroom dialogue. They largely agreed on coding and qualitative analysis.
* [Generative AI Can Harm Learning](/articles/generative-ai-can-harm-learning.md) - Students practiced with no device, a tutoring-tuned LLM or a plain LLM. The plain-LLM group did worse; the other two scored about the same.
* [Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting](/articles/getting-started-with-ai-good-enough-prompting.md) - Ethan Mollick argues that using AI well takes no prompt engineering, just about ten hours of experimenting to learn what the tools can do.
* [The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers](/articles/impact-critical-thinking-knowledge-workers.md) - A survey of professionals using AI found their critical thinking declined when they had high confidence in the AI’s output.
* [The Perception Crisis: How Educational Institutions Are Missing AI Reality](/articles/perception-crisis.md) - The article discusses the growing disconnect between how institutions perceive and respond to AI versus its actual capabilities and usage in 2024-2025.
* [Prompting Science Report 1: Prompt Engineering is Complicated and Contingent](/articles/prompting-science-complicated-contingent.md) - This report from March 2025 indicates that prompt engineering techniques and approaches have inconsistent results.
* [Superintelligent judges: Can AI models judge as well as humans?](/articles/superintelligent-judges.md) - In this post, the authors describe a test using an AI to evaluate student work to measure specific biases known to occur with LLMs.
* [The GPT Surprise: Offering Large Language Model Chat in a Massive Coding Class Reduced Engagement but Increased Adopters Exam Performances](/articles/the-gpt-surprise.md) - Students taking an online coding class were randomly assigned to a group with access to an LLM or a control condition.
* [Updating the AI Assessment Scale](/articles/update-ai-assessment-scale.md) - An updated article on AI and how it impacts assessments in K-12 and higher education across a range of disciplines.
* [The Widespread Adoption of Large Language Model-Assisted Writing Across Society](/articles/widespread-adoption-llm-writing.md) - This paper analyzes the rate of adoption for LLMs in professional writing, specifically: job postings, press releases, and consumer complaints.