AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows
A study of 27,000 students in China found that AI tools improved homework scores by 18% but led to a 20% drop in exam scores when AI was unavailable. Researchers from Stockholm University and the University of Hong Kong tracked students aged 12-18, with 80% using AI like Doubao and DeepSeek. The findings highlight concerns about AI's impact on deep learning, echoing a smaller University of Pennsylvania study and sparking debate on Hacker News.
Students who used AI saw their average homework scores rise by 18% across all subjects over a six-month period, but scored 20% below classmates who had not used AI during the study period.
- julienchastang
This article is about the Economist's summary of a journal article so we have a (AI?) summary of a summary. Not very helpful. Here are a couple of better references:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618
Also note the findings are more nuanced than may appear on the surface.
- Boss0565
We cannot be boosting AI slop like this