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Can AI deliver appropriate support for diverse student profiles?: A large-scale evaluation
Sonsoles López-Pernas, Eduardo Oliveira, Kamila Misiejuk, Fitsum Gizachew Deriba, Rogers Kaliisa, Mohammed Saqr. (08/2026). Computers in Human Behavior: Artifical Humans.
What is the application? Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support, Analyzing
Who is the user? Educator
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Differentiation
Study design: Quantitative – OthersOne Click Away: AI Tutoring with Khanmigo in a Two-Year School Experiment
Philip Oreopoulos, Nina Low. (08/2026). NBER.
… transform education by providing every student a personal tutor. We provide some of the first large-scale experimental … randomly assigned students used Khan Academy with its AI tutor, Khanmigo, configured to coach rather than give … AI assistance. One explanation is that students used the tutor infrequently and, when they did, rarely engaged it in …What is the application? Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student, Educator
Which age? Middle School (6-8)
Why use AI? Outcomes – Numeracy, Outcomes – Differentiation
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialMaking AI Tutoring Productive: Evidence from a Mastery-Based Math Practice Experiment
Philip Oreopoulos, Michael Liut, Alp Sungu, Nina Low. (08/2026). NBER.
What is the application? Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Middle School (6-8)
Why use AI? Outcomes – Numeracy, Outcomes – Differentiation
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialVirtual Tutoring with Computer-Assisted Learning: An Experiment in Take-Up and Learning
Philip Oreopoulos, Ruochong Dong, Nina Low. (08/2026). NBER.
What is the application? Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support, Analyzing
Who is the user? Student, Parent/Caregiver, Educator
Which age? Elementary (PK5), Middle School (6-8)
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Numeracy
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialWhen LLM Essays Outscore Student Essays: What A Korean Writing Rubric Rewards And Where Readers Disagree
Shinwoo Park, Yo-Sub Han. (08/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials
Who is the user? Others
Which age? Elementary (PK5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
Why use AI? Other
Study design: Quantitative – OthersReflection-Satisfaction Tradeoff: Investigating Impact Of Reflection On Student Engagement With AI-Generated Programming Hints
Heeryung Choia, Tung Phungb, Mengyan Wu, Adish Singlab, Christopher Brooksa. (08/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Social Emotional, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Quantitative – OthersThe Theoretical Foundation Of Socratic Tests: Dynamic, Multimodal, Conversational Examinations
Ilya Mikhelson. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support, Analyzing
Who is the user? Student, Educator
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation, Outcomes – Durable Skills, Reimagined Schooling
Study design: Descriptive – Product Development, Technical – Computational, Quantitative – OthersStudents' Epistemological Beliefs And Their Chatbot Preferences In AI-Mediated Physics Learning
Amogh Sirnoorkar, Omkar Mamidpalliwar. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic
Study design: Quantitative – OthersAgreement Is Not Quality: Blind Expert Verification Of Human And LLM Qualitative Coding When Human Consensus Is Not Ground Truth
Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade, Michael Xiao, Victor Tian, Zachary Zhang, Kevin He, Min Sun. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Analyzing
Who is the user? Others
Which age? Elementary (PK5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
Why use AI? Other
Study design: Quantitative – OthersHuman-LLM Collaborative Inductive Coding For Conceptualizing K-12 Educator AI Use
Alex Liu, Min Sun, Lief Esbenshade, Michael Xiao, Victor Tian, Zachary Zhang, Kevin He. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Teaching – Professional Learning, Organizing, Analyzing
Who is the user? Educator, School Leader
Which age? Elementary (PK5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Differentiation
Study design: Descriptive – Product Development, Technical – ComputationalWhat Remains Human In Mathematics In The Age Of AI
Amir Moradifam. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student, Educator, Others
Which age? Post-Secondary, Adult
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Numeracy, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design:Structured AI Demonstrations And Student LLM Use In Engineering Mechanics: Study Design And Preliminary Results
Shuang Geng, Helen Lallos-Harrell, Jiya Ashar, Thomas J. McKenna, Annwesa Dasgupta, Caleb Farny, Emma Lejeune. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Learning – Student Support, Analyzing
Who is the user? Student, Educator
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Durable Skills, Reimagined Schooling
Study design: Descriptive – Implementation and Use, Impact – Quasi–experimental, Technical – ComputationalAI-Based Scoring Systematically Underestimates Conceptual Understanding Of Linguistically Weak Students' Explanations In Physics
Markus S. Feser, Paul L. Tschisgale. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Assessment and Feedback
Who is the user? Others
Which age? High School (9-12)
Why use AI? Efficiency
Study design: Technical – ComputationalStudent Perceptions And Preferences Regarding AI-Generated Instructional Videos In Computing Education
Esse Ciego, Shubbhi Taneja, Wilson Wong, Amanpreet Kapoor. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student, Educator
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation
Study design: Descriptive – Implementation and Use, Quantitative – OthersIs Solving Better Than Evaluating Genai Solutions?
Ethan Dickey, Marios Mertzanidis, Alexandros Psomas. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Durable Skills, Reimagined Schooling
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialThe Agency Gap In AI-Supported Writing: How Reactive And Proactive Agent Designs Shape Multimodal Reasoning
Yueqiao Jin, Kaixun Yang, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, Dragan Gasevic, Lixiang Yan. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Literacy, Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialDesigning Needs- And Attention-Aware AI Learning Tools For Engineering Education: Insights From Psychological Outcomes
Kevin Zhongyang Shao, Denise Wilson, Yale Quan, Sep Makhsous. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation, Outcomes – Social Emotional, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Descriptive – Implementation and Use, Quantitative – OthersFour Years Of Genai: How Educators And Industry Adapted Their Assessment Strategies
May Mahmoud, Nisa Shahid, Izah Sohail, Gulshan Sharma, Hanan Salam, Sarah Nadi. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student, Educator, Others
Which age? Post-Secondary, Adult
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Descriptive – Implementation and Use, Quantitative – OthersGenerative AI Availability, Grades, And Student Satisfaction At A Large University
James M. Zumel Dumlao, Meng Wang, Zhonghan Xie, Junyao Hu, Ivan Bar, George Chaney III, Henry Gold, Misha Teplitskiy. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Learning – Student Support, Analyzing
Who is the user? Student, Others
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Other
Study design: Impact – Quasi–experimentalEmergent Learner Agency In Implicit Human-AI Collaboration: How Supportive And Contrarian AI Personas Reshape Interaction
Yueqiao Jin, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, Dragan Gasevic, Xibin Han, Lixiang Yan. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Communicating / Social Tools
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialBeyond Direct Answering: Aligning Educational LLMs As Socratic Guides Via Heuristic Reinforcement Learning
Xiaokun Wang, Siyu Song, Wentao Liu, Xiaodong Zou. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Elementary (PK5), Middle School (6-8)
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Descriptive – Product Development, Technical – Computational, Quantitative – OthersA Framework For Developing University Policies On Generative AI Governance: A Cross-National Comparative Study
Ming Li, Qin Xie, Ariunaa Enkhtur, Shuoyang Meng, Lilan Chen, Beverley Anne Yamamoto, Fei Cheng, Masayuki Murakami. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support, Organizing, Analyzing
Who is the user? Student, Educator
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Literacy, Outcomes – Differentiation, Outcomes – Durable Skills, Other
Study design:Beyond Perspectives: A Trio-Ethnography Of Interpretation Evolution In LLM-Supported Programming Education
Jennie Ren, Jordan H. McDowell, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Professional Learning, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student, Educator
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Durable Skills, Reimagined Schooling
Study design: Descriptive – Implementation and UseTeachy Mini: Development And Preliminary Evaluation Of A Knowledge-Based Generative Social Robot For Higher Education
Stephan Vonschallen, Karim Kaufmann, Dominique Oberle, Friederike Eyssel, Theresa Schmiedel. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation, Other
Study design: Descriptive – Product Development, Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Technical – ComputationalA Principled Way To Think About AI In Education: Guidance For Educators And Policy Makers On Action Based On Goals, Models Of Human Learning, And Use Of Technologies
Noah Finkelstein. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support, Organizing, Analyzing
Who is the user? Student, Educator, School Leader
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation, Outcomes – Social Emotional, Outcomes – Durable Skills, Reimagined Schooling
Study design: Descriptive – Implementation and UseLlama Lima: A Living Meta-Analysis On The Effects Of Generative AI On Learning Mathematics
Anselm Strohmaier, Samira Bodefeld, Frank Reinhold. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support, Communicating / Social Tools
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), Post-Secondary, Adult
Why use AI? Outcomes – Numeracy
Study design: Systematic ReviewAI-Integrated Scientific Inquiry: A Practice-Centered Vision For Science Education
Arne Bewersdorff, Matias Rojas, Xiaoming Zhai. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student, Educator
Which age? Elementary (PK5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
Why use AI? Outcomes – Literacy, Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Durable Skills, Reimagined Schooling
Study design: Descriptive – Implementation and Use, Descriptive – Product DevelopmentGenerative AI And Agency In Education: A Critical Scoping Review And Thematic Analysis
Jasper Roe, Mike Perkins. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Teaching – Professional Learning, Learning – Student Support, Organizing, Analyzing
Who is the user? Student, Parent/Caregiver, Educator
Which age? Elementary (PK5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Literacy, Outcomes – Differentiation, Outcomes – Durable Skills, Other
Study design: Systematic ReviewExperiential Versus Instructional Approaches For Eliciting Metacognitive Awareness In AI-Assisted Learning: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study
Pau Benazet i Montobbio, Janne Rotter, Davinia Hern√°ndez-Leo. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Impact – Quasi–experimentalWhat Does The Credential Still Certify? Cognitive Stewardship For AI-Mediated Education
Kai Yao. (07/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Analyzing
Who is the user? Others
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI?
Study design: Quantitative – Others

