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Assessing The Impact And Underlying Pathways Of Sequenced AI Feedback On Student Learning
Jie Cao, Chloe Qianhui Zhao, Christian Schunn, Elizabeth A. McLaughlin, Jionghao Lin, Kenneth R. Koedinger. (04/2026). 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 – Other Academic, Outcomes – Social Emotional, Outcomes – Durable Skills, Reimagined Schooling
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialAI-Supported Data Analysis Boosts Student Motivation And Reduces Stress In Physics Education
Jannik Henze, Julia Lademann, Sebastian Becker-Genschow and Andre Bresges. (04/2026). 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? Efficiency, Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Social Emotional
Study design: Descriptive – Product Development, Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialAgora: Teaching The Skill Of Consensus-Finding With AI Personas Grounded In Human Voice
Prerna Ravi, Om Gokhale, Suyash Pradeep Fulay, Eugene Yi, Deb Roy, Michiel Bakker. (04/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Descriptive – Product Development, Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialSame Feedback, Different Source: How AI Vs. Human Feedback Attribution And Credibility Shape Learner Behavior In Computing Education
Caitlin Morris, Pattie Maes. (04/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Assessment and Feedback
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 TrialBeyond The AI Tutor: Social Learning With LLM Agents
Harsh Kumar, Jonathan Vincentius, Zi Kang (Jace) Mu, Ashton Anderson. (04/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? High School (9-12), Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Literacy, Outcomes – Numeracy, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Technical – ComputationalImpact Of Multimodal And Conversational AI On Learning Outcomes And Experience
Karan Taneja, Anjali Singh, and Ashok K. Goel. (04/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialEvaluating A Data-Driven Redesign Process For Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Qianru Lyu, Conrad Borchers, Meng Xia, Karen Xiao, Paulo F. Carvalho, Kenneth R. Koedinger, and Vincent Aleven. (03/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Middle School (6-8)
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Numeracy, Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation
Study design: Descriptive – Product Development, Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialShaping Credibility Judgments In Human-Genai Partnership Via Weaker LLMs: A Transactive Memory Perspective On AI Literacy
Md Touhidul Islam, Mahir Akgun, Syed Billah. (03/2026). 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
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Quantitative – OthersAn Experimental Evaluation Of An AI-Powered Interactive Learning Platform
Courtney Heldreth, Diana Akrong, Laura M. Vardoulakis, Nicole E. Miller, Yael Haramaty, Lidan Hackmon, Lior Belinsky, Abraham Ortiz Tapia, Lucy Tootill, Scott Siebert. (03/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? High School (9-12)
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialReflected: Evaluating Reflection-Driven Learning In An AI-Assisted System
Md Nazmus Sakib, Ishika Tarin, Naga Manogna Rayasam, Manas Gaur, Sanorita Dey. (03/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Learning – Student Support, Communicating / Social Tools
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Differentiation, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Descriptive – Implementation and Use, Descriptive – Product Development, Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialPracticing With Language Models Cultivates Human Empathic Communication
Aakriti Kumar, Nalin Poungpeth, Diyi Yang, Bruce Lambert, Matthew Groh. (03/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Teaching – Professional Learning
Who is the user?
Which age? Adult
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Social Emotional
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialEffective Personalized AI Tutors Via Llm-Guided Reinforcement Learning
Angel Tsai-Hsuan Chung, Botong Zhang, Ling-Chieh Kung, Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani. (03/2026). SSRN.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? High School (9-12)
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Technical – ComputationalThe Economics Of Algorithmic Personalization: Evidence From An Educational Technology Platform
Keshav Agrawal, Susan Athey, Ayush Kanodia, Shanjukta Nath, Emil Palikot. (03/2026). NBER.
What is the application? Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Elementary (PK5), Middle School (6-8)
Why use AI? Outcomes – Literacy, Outcomes – Differentiation
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Impact – Quasi–experimentalTransforming Genai Policy To Prompting Instruction: An Rct Of Scalable Prompting Interventions In A Cs1 Course
Ruiwei Xiao, Runlong Ye, Xinying Hou, Jessica Wen, Harsh Kumar, Michael Liut, John Stamper. (02/2026). 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
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialiRuler: Intelligible Rubric-Based User-Defined Llm Evaluation For Revision
Jingwen Bai, Wei Soon Cheong, Philippe Muller, Brian Y Lim. (02/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Assessment and Feedback
Who is the user? Student, Educator
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Literacy, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Technical – ComputationalEfficiency Without Cognitive Change: Evidence From Human Interaction With Narrow AI Systems
María Angélica Benítez, Rocío Candela Ceballos, Karina Del Valle, Mundo Araujo Sofía, Sofía Evangelina Victorio Villaroel, Nadia Justel. (02/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Adult
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Literacy, Outcomes – Other Academic
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialPersonalized Learning Path Planning Through Goal-Driven Learner State Modeling
Joy Jia Yin Lim, Ye He, Jifan Yu, Xin Cong, Daniel Zhang-Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Huiqin Liu, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Bin Xu. (02/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Technical – Computational, Quantitative – OthersExploring The Role Of Tracing In AI-Supported Planning For Algorithmic Reasoning
Yoshee Jain, Heejin Do, Zihan Wu, April Yi Wang. (02/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Quantitative – OthersLearning Context: A Unified Framework And Roadmap For Context-Aware Ai In Education
Naiming Liu, Brittany Bradford, Johaun Hatchett, Gabriel Diaz, Lorenzo Luzi, Zichao Wang, Debshila Basu Mallick, Richard Baraniuk. (01/2026). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback, Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student, Educator
Which age? Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Numeracy, Outcomes – Differentiation, Outcomes – Durable Skills, Other
Study design: Descriptive – Product Development, Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Technical – ComputationalLlm-Based Multimodal Feedback Produces Equivalent Learning And Better Student Perceptions Than Educator Feedback
Chloe Qianhui Zhao, Jionghao Lin, Jie Cao, Kenneth R. Koedinger. (01/2026). 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 – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Quantitative – OthersAi Skills Improve Job Prospects: Causal Evidence From A Hiring Experiment
Fabian Stephany, Ole Teutloff, Angelo Leone. (01/2026). arXiv.
What is the application?
Who is the user? Others
Which age? Adult
Why use AI? Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialWhen Peers Outperform Ai (And When They Don'T): Interaction Quality Over Modality
Caitlin Morris, Pattie Maes. (01/2026). 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
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Quantitative – OthersYour Brain On Chatgpt: Accumulation Of Cognitive Debt When Using An Ai Assistant For Essay Writing Task
Nataliya Kosmyna, Eugene Hauptmann, Ye Tong Yuan, Jessica Situ, Xian-Hao Liao, Ashly Vivian Beresnitzky, Iris Braunstein, Pattie Maes. (12/2025). arXiv.
What is the application? Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary, Adult
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Literacy, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Quantitative – OthersThe Social Blindspot In Human-Ai Collaboration: How Undetected Ai Personas Reshape Team Dynamics
Lixiang Yan, Xibin Han, Yu Zhang, Samuel Greiff, Inge Molenaar, Yizhou Fan, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, Linxuan Zhao, Xinyu Li, Yueqiao Jin and Dragan Gasevic. (12/2025). arXiv.
What is the application? Communicating / Social Tools
Who is the user? Others
Which age? Adult
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Social Emotional, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialEmbedding-Based Rankings Of Educational Resources Based On Learning Outcome Alignment: Benchmarking, Expert Validation, And Learner Performance
Mohammadreza Molavi, Mohammad Moein, Mohammadreza Tavakoli, Abdolali Faraji, Stefan T. Mol, Gabor Kismihok. (12/2025). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Instructional Materials
Who is the user? Educator
Which age? Post-Secondary, Adult
Why use AI? Efficiency, Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Technical – ComputationalFlora: An Advanced AI-Powered Engine To Facilitate Hybrid Human-AI Regulated Learning
Xinyu Li, Tongguang Li, Lixiang Yan, Yuheng Li, Linxuan Zhao, Mladen Rakovic, Inge Molenaar, Dragan Gasevic, Yizhou Fan. (12/2025). arXiv.
What is the application? Communicating / Social Tools, Learning – Student Support, Teaching – Assessment and Feedback
Who is the user? Student, Educator
Which age? Elementary (PK5), Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Literacy, Outcomes – Differentiation, Outcomes – Social Emotional, Outcomes – Durable Skills
Study design: Descriptive – Product Development, Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialReflection-Satisfaction Tradeoff: Investigating Impact Of Reflection On Student Engagement With Ai-Generated Programming Hints
Heeryung Choia, Tung Phungb, Mengyan Wuª, Adish Singlab, Christopher Brooksa. (12/2025). 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 – OthersAi Tutoring Enhances Student Learning Without Crowding Out Reading Effort
Mira Fischer, Holger A. Rau, Rainer Michael Rilke. (12/2025). IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
What is the application? Learning – Student Support
Who is the user? Student
Which age? Post-Secondary
Why use AI? Outcomes – Other Academic, Outcomes – Differentiation
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled TrialPacee: Supporting Children'S Personal Emotion Education Through Parent-Ai Collaboration
Yu Mei, Xutong Wang, Ziyao Zhang, Yiming Fu, Shiyi Wang, Qingyang Wan, Qinghuan Lan, Chang Liu, Jie Cai, Chun Yu, Yuanchun Shi. (11/2025). arXiv.
What is the application? Teaching – Professional Learning, Learning – Student Support, Communicating / Social Tools
Who is the user? Parent/Caregiver
Which age? 0-3 years, Elementary (PK5)
Why use AI? Outcomes – Social Emotional
Study design: Descriptive – Implementation and Use, Descriptive – Product Development, Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial, Quantitative – OthersChatgpt As A Cognitive Crutch: Evidence From A Randomized Controlled Trial On Knowledge Retention
Andre Barcaui. (11/2025). Social Sciences & Humanities Open.
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
Study design: Impact – Randomized Controlled Trial
