This is a link post.Last week some results were released from a 6-week study using AI tutors in Nigeria. Below I summarize the results of that and four other recent studies about AI tutoring (the dates reflect when the study was conducted rather than when papers were published):
Summer 2024 — 15–16-year olds in Nigeria They had 800 students total. The treatment group studied with GPT-based Microsoft Copilot twice weekly for six weeks, studying English. They were just provided an initial prompt to start chatting—teachers had a minimal “orchestra conductor” role—but they achieved “the equivalent of two years of typical learning in just six weeks.”
Spring 2024 — K-12 Title I schools in the South They had 1,800 K-12 students in a low-income school district and gave human tutors to both the treatment and control group, though in the treatment group the tutors had access to the “Tutor [...]
First published:
January 19th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bs3yj8vLDKNnoa95m/five-recent-ai-tutoring-studies)
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