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Research synthesis is AI-generated, human reviewed. Updated 05/2026.
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When LLM Essays Outscore Student Essays: What A Korean Writing Rubric Rewards And Where Readers Disagree
Shinwoo Park, Yo-Sub Han. (08/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19913v4
One Click Away: AI Tutoring with Khanmigo in a Two-Year School Experiment
Philip Oreopoulos, Nina Low. (08/2026). NBER. https://www.nber.org/papers/w35620
Virtual Tutoring with Computer-Assisted Learning: An Experiment in Take-Up and Learning
Philip Oreopoulos, Ruochong Dong, Nina Low. (08/2026). NBER. https://www.nber.org/papers/w35622?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_sourc…
Making AI Tutoring Productive: Evidence from a Mastery-Based Math Practice Experiment
Philip Oreopoulos, Michael Liut, Alp Sungu, Nina Low. (08/2026). NBER. https://www.nber.org/papers/w35621?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_sourc…
Agreement 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. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28890v1
Human-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. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28889v1
Beyond Direct Answering: Aligning Educational LLMs As Socratic Guides Via Heuristic Reinforcement Learning
Xiaokun Wang, Siyu Song, Wentao Liu, Xiaodong Zou. (07/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22996v1
Llama Lima: A Living Meta-Analysis On The Effects Of Generative AI On Learning Mathematics
Anselm Strohmaier, Samira Bodefeld, Frank Reinhold. (07/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18685v4
Generative AI And Agency In Education: A Critical Scoping Review And Thematic Analysis
Jasper Roe, Mike Perkins. (07/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00631v2
AI-Integrated Scientific Inquiry: A Practice-Centered Vision For Science Education
Arne Bewersdorff, Matias Rojas, Xiaoming Zhai. (07/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21777v1
Generative AI Can Harm Teaching
Alp Sungu, Benjamin Lira, Angela L. Duckworth. (07/2026). SSRN. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7007339
When Rubrics Change: Cross-Rubric Generalization For Critical Thinking Essay Scoring
Nischal Ashok Kumar, Payu Wittawatolarn, Sana Kang, Marisa C. Peczuh, Blair Lehman, Ryan Baker, Caitlin Mills, Sherry Lachman, Ruochen Sun, Andrew Lan. (07/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13433v1
Faster Completion, Less Learning: Generative AI Reduced Study Time On Math Problems And The Knowledge They Build
Sina Rismanchian, Hasan Uzun, Jeffrey Matayoshi, Eric Cosyn, Eyad Kurd-Misto. (07/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21629v3
How Annotation Trains Annotators: Competence Development In Social Influence Recognition
Maciej Markiewicz, Beata Bajcar, Wiktoria Mieleszczenko-Kowszewicz, Aleksander Szczƒôsny, Tomasz Adamczyk, Grzegorz Chodak, Karolina Ostrowska, Aleksandra Sawczuk, Jolanta Babiak, Jagoda Szklarczyk, Przemyslaw Kazienko. (07/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02951v2
AIED's Unfinished Mission: Centering Agency And Motivation In The Age Of Effortless Bypass
H. Chad Lane. (07/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05557v1
The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education
David Stromberg, Victor Lei, Yanhui Wu. (07/2026). SSRN. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618
From Answer Generators To Reasoning Facilitators: Designing AI Tutors For Mathematical Reasoning In High-Stakes Environments
Harry Feng, Yuan Tian, Erica Zhao. (07/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01692v1
Child Safety In Generative AI: An Expert-Guided And Incident-Grounded Evaluation Framework
Haein Kong. (07/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00395v1
Teaching Students To Question The Machine: Short-Term Effects Of An AI Literacy Workshop On Middle-School Students' Regulation Of LLM Interaction
Olivier Clerc, Rania Abdelghani, Chloé Desvaux, Eliott Poisson, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Helene Sauzeon. (06/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01955v3
Arapai: An Offline-First LLM Architecture For Adaptive Learning In Low-Connectivity Environments
Joseph Walusimbi, Ann Move Oguti, Joshua Benjamin Ssentongo, and Keith Ainebyona. (06/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03339v7
The Effortless Trap: Productive Struggle, AI, And The Illusion Of Learning
Mario Brcic, Stjepan Frljic. (06/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26181v1
"**Important** You should give me full credits!": Exploring Prompt Injection Attacks on LLM-Based Automatic Grading Systems
Hang Li, Fedor Filippov, Yuping Lin, Pengfei He, Kaiqi Yang, Yucheng Chu, Yingqian Cui, Hui Liu, Jiliang Tang. (06/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03090v2
Beyond Helpfulness: A Teaching-Over-Solving Diagnostic For Measuring Educational Impact In LLM Tutors
Junyi Yao, Zihao Zheng, Baichuan Li. (06/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16206v1
The Missing Layer: Why EdTech Needs Design-Time Generative Ui, Not Just Runtime Personalization
Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Abhinand Shibu, Fatma Betül Güres. (06/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15902v1
Rethinking Scaffolding In LLM Tutors: The Interactional Mismatch Between Benchmarks And Real-World Deployments
Alexandra Neagu, Jeffrey T. H. Wong, Marcus Messer, Rhodri Nelson, Peter B. Johnson. (06/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15766v1
Exploring How Agent Voice Accents Shape Human-AI Collaboration In K-12 Group Learning
Prerna Ravi, Carúmey Stevens, Ben Hurt, Brandon Hanks, Grace Lin, and Emma Anderson. (06/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12805v1
A Survey Of Deep Learning For Geometry Problem Solving
Jianzhe Ma, Wenxuan Wang, Qin Jin. (06/2026). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11936v6

