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AI tutors, with a little human help, offer ‘reliable’ instruction, study finds
Students using Eedi’s AI tutor corrected misconceptions over 90% of the time and scored 66.2% on new problems, surpassing human-only tutoring outcomes, researchers reported.
- Eedi.com ran a randomized controlled trial with 165 British secondary school students, ages 13-15, using Google's LearnLM whose drafts were reviewed by expert human tutors.
- Researchers gave the AI access to 20 weeks of student data, feeding extremely personalized information on topics students mastered or struggled with to guide its support strategy.
- Eedi Labs reported students in the trial solved new problems 66.2% of the time with AI versus 60.7% with human tutors, and AI hallucinated 0.1% of the time in 3,617 messages.
- The results suggest AI could scale individualized tutoring as researchers said `pedagogically fine-tuned` AI may deliver effective tutoring at scale, extending classroom access beyond human tutors' limited availability.
- Unlike prior work, the Eedi design let AI lead conversations while humans oversaw it, with experts cautioning the reliance on 13-to-15-year-olds raises generalizability questions, as researchers situate results alongside Harvard and Stanford studies.
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