Students using AI score 20 percent lower in classwork
Research shows students who use AI for homework score 20 percent lower in in-person classwork.
A two-year study of school students conducted by universities in Hong Kong and Stockholm found a troubling pattern: those who used AI to help with homework scored 20 percent lower in in-person classwork than students who didn't, highlighting growing concerns about AI's effect on learning.
Australia's NAPLAN test results from August show reading and writing skills falling across every age group. Experts say the brain needs to exercise thinking skills or they weaken, like a muscle.
Former chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel warns that offloading problems to AI leaves students less able to solve problems themselves. A survey found 78 percent of Australian children use AI assistants.
- 27,000 school students
- Study participants
- 20 percent lower in-person classwork
- Score gap
- Hong Kong and Stockholm universities
- Study locations
- 78 percent
- Australian children using AI
Why it mattersIf students rely on AI for schoolwork now, they may graduate with weaker problem-solving skills and less ability to think independently.
AustraliaOne in three Australian schoolchildren is now failing to meet NAPLAN benchmarks in reading and writing; AI use is rising as these scores fall.
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