Research Repository
A collection of all generative AI research on education (with a focus on K12) including descriptive research (product development and implementation and use), quasi-experimental, randomized controlled trials, and systematic reviews.
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Tutor CoPilot: A Human-AI Approach for Scaling Real-Time Expertise
Rose E. Wang, Ana T. Ribeiro, Carly D. Robinson, Susanna Loeb, Dorottya Demszky. (2025). National Student Support Accelerator. https://studentsupportaccelerator.org/studies/tutor-copilot-human-ai-approach-s…
Automated Feedback Improves Teachers’ Questioning Quality in Brick-and-Mortar Classrooms: Opportunities for Further Enhancement
Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu, Heather C. Hill, Shyamoli Sanghi, Ariel Chun. (2024). EdWorkingPapers.com. https://doi.org/10.26300/8pnw-5q67
Backwards Planning with Generative AI: Case Study Evidence from US K12 Teachers
Samantha Keppler, Wichinpong Park Sinchaisri, Clare Snyder. (2024). SSRN. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4924786
The Feedback Prize: A Case Study in Assisted Writing Feedback Tools
Perpetual Baffour, Scott Crossley, Yu Tian, Alex Franklin, Natalie Rambis, Meg Benner, Ulrich Boser. (2024). The Learning Agency Lab. https://the-learning-agency-lab.com/
Can Large Language Models Make the Grade? An Empirical Study Evaluating LLMs Ability To Mark Short Answer Questions in K-12 Education
Owen Henkel, Libby Hills, Adam Boxer, Bill Roberts, Zach Levonian. (2024). L@S '24: Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale.
How do students use ChatGPT as a writing support?
Sarah W. Beck, Chris Mah, Lena Phalen, Jaylen Pittman. (2024). International Literacy Association. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1373
Generative AI Can Harm Learning
Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, Alp Sungu, Haosen Ge, Özge Kabakcı, Rei Mariman. (2024). SSRN. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4895486
Harvard Undergraduate Survey on Generative AI
Shikoh Hirabayashi, Rishab Jain, Nikola Jurković, Gabriel Wu. (2024). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.00833
What Conversational AI Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About Peer Interaction in Higher Education
Peters Vanessa, Emily Pressler, Julie Neisler, Barbara Means. (2024). ISLS Repository. https://repository.isls.org/handle/1/11077
Grade Like a Human: Rethinking Automated Assessment with Large Language Models
Wenjing Xie, Juxin Niu, Chun Jason Xue, Nan Guan. (2024). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.19694
Improving Teaching at Scale: Can AI Be Incorporated Into Professional Development to Create Interactive, Personalized Learning for Teachers?
Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Jingxian Li, Sebnem Atabas. (2024). American Educational Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312241248514
AI Tutoring Outperforms Active Learning
Gregory Kestin, Kelly Miller, Anna Klales, Timothy Milbourne, Gregorio Ponti. (2024). Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4243877/v1
Artificial Intelligence and Educational Measurement: Opportunities and Threats
Andrew D. Ho. (2024). DASH Harvard. https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37379195
ChatGPT-generated help produces learning gains equivalent to human tutor-authored help on mathematics skills
Zachary A. Pardos, Shreya Bhandari. (2024). PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304013
Effective and Scalable Math Support: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an AI- Math Tutor in Ghana
Owen Henkel, Hannah Horne-Robinson, Nessie Kozhakhmetova, Amanda Lee. (2024). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.09809
The GPT Surprise: Offering Large Language Model Chat in a Massive Coding Class Reduced Engagement but Increased Adopters Exam Performances
Allen Nie, Yash Chandak, Miroslav Suzara, Ali Malik, Juliette Woodrow, Matt Peng, Mehran Sahami, Emma Brunskill, Chris Piech. (2024). MyIDEAS. https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/osfxxx/qy8zd.html
Improving Student Learning with Hybrid Human-AI Tutoring: A Three-Study Quasi-Experimental Investigation
Danielle R. Thomas, Jionghao Lin, Erin Gatz, Ashish Gurung, Shivang Gupta, Kole Norberg, Stephen E. Fancsali, Vincent Aleven, Lee Branstetter, Emma Brunskill, Kenneth R. Koedinger. (2024). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3636555.3636896
Generative artificial intelligence enhances creativity but reduces the diversity of novel content
Anil R. Doshi, Oliver P. Hauser. (2024). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00506
Improving Assessment of Tutoring Practices using Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Zifei FeiFei Han, Jionghao Lin, Ashish Gurung, Danielle R. Thomas, Eason Chen, Conrad Borchers, Shivang Gupta, Kenneth R. Koedinger. (2024). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14594
Supporting Teachers’ Professional Development With Generative AI: The Effects on Higher Order Thinking and Self-Efficacy
Jijian Lu, Ruxin Zheng, Zikun Gong, Huifen Xu. (2024). IEEE Xplore. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10444988
Human-AI Collaborative Essay Scoring: A Dual-Process Framework with LLMs
Changrong Xiao, Wenxing Ma, Qingping Song, Sean Xin Xu, Kunpeng Zhang, Yufang Wang, Qi Fu. (2024). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.06431
Deciphering Stereotypes in Pre-Trained Language Models
Weicheng Ma, Henry Scheible, Brian Wang, Goutham Veeramachaneni, Pratim Chowdhary, Alan Sun, Andrew Koulogeorge, Lili Wang, Diyi Yang, Soroush Vosoughi. (2023). ACL Anthology. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.697
The Impact of Student-AI Collaborative Feedback Generation on Learning Outcomes
Anjali Singh, Christopher Brooks, Xu Wang. (2023). OpenReview. https://openreview.net/forum?id=IQZ2dcsVq0
Let’s Chat: Leveraging Chatbot Outreach for Improved Course Performance
Katharine Meyer, Lindsay C. Page, Catherine Mata, Eric Smith, B. Tyler Walsh, C. Lindsey Fifield, Amy Eremionkhale, Michael Evans, Shelby Frost. (2023). EdWorkingPapers.com. https://doi.org/10.26300/es6b-sm82
Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence
Shakked Noy, Whitney Zhang. (2023). Science. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh2586
GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers
Weixin Liang, Mert Yuksekgonul, Yining Mao, Eric Wu, James Zou. (2023). ScienceDirect. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2023.100779
The Impact of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Project-Based Learning (PBL) Course on Middle-School Students' Interest, Knowledge, and Career Aspiration in the AI Field
Roozbeh Aliabadi. (2023). Robert Morris University. https://eric.ed.gov/ED633474
M-Powering Teachers: Natural Language Processing Powered Feedback Improves 1:1 Instruction and Student Outcomes
Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu. (2023). EdWorkingPapers.com. https://edworkingpapers.com/ai23-759
The effect of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool use on students' computational thinking skills, programming self-efficacy and motivation
Ramazan Yilmaz, Fatma Gizem, Karaoglan Yilmaz. (2023). Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2023.100147
Logic Against Bias: Textual Entailment Mitigates Stereotypical Sentence Reasoning
Hongyin Luo, James Glass. (2023). arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05670
Proactive student support using artificially intelligent conversational chatbots: The importance of targeting the technology
Aizat Nurshatayeva, Lindsay C. Page, Carol C. White, Hunter Gehlbach. (2020). EdWorkingPapers.com. https://doi.org/10.26300/mp4q-4x12
