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The American Psychological Association distinguishes engagement and assisted performance from durable learning. It calls for evidence that knowledge transfers beyond an app or chatbot.
Students produced ambitious AI-assisted work, but an unaided exam exposed weak performance. The course did not reliably demonstrate its foundational learning goals.
Participants preferred plans and decomposed explanations, but simpler step-by-step traces often better supported verification. Some preferred formats increased false alarms or encouraged trust without corresponding willingness to check.
Six language models changed scores, feedback or answers when prompts included explicit demographic descriptions or prior conversation histories. Removing a demographic field alone may therefore leave contextual signals in an assessment workflow.
AI-permitted and non-AI reading preparation showed no statistically significant differences in quizzes, examination scores, preparation time or perceived understanding. Students mainly sought vocabulary and sentence-level help.
ProIQA evaluates mathematics items through concepts, difficulty and cognitive demands, using solution information as well as question wording. The authors report stronger benchmark performance than comparison methods.
Can an AI grader judge the same work differently because of what it knows about the learner? Researchers tested six language models on essay scoring, feedback and English-language questions, keeping the task fixed while varying explicit demographic profiles…
Does permission to use AI improve preparation for a reading lesson? At a Japanese university, 83 students experienced English-reading preparation with and without AI access. Researchers found no statistically significant differences in quizzes, final…
A math question can look appropriate while demanding a different kind of reasoning than a teacher intended. ProIQA addresses this problem by examining solution processes as well as question wording. The framework evaluates concepts, difficulty and…
Can an AI grader judge the same work differently because of what it knows about the learner? Researchers tested six language models on essay scoring, feedback and English-language questions, keeping the task fixed while varying explicit demographic profiles…
Does permission to use AI improve preparation for a reading lesson? At a Japanese university, 83 students experienced English-reading preparation with and without AI access. Researchers found no statistically significant differences in quizzes, final…
A math question can look appropriate while demanding a different kind of reasoning than a teacher intended. ProIQA addresses this problem by examining solution processes as well as question wording. The framework evaluates concepts, difficulty and…
A high-school robotics curriculum connects assembly, simulation and reinforcement learning through a shared humanoid robot project. Pairs of students work toward training a walking behavior and transferring it to hardware. Five experts reviewed the design,…
An exploratory Singapore study asked educators and students to complete statements about how AI had changed education, was changing it and might change it next. The 223 respondents included 71 educators and 152 university students. Educators emphasized…