An AI-powered tutoring assistant increased human tutors’ capacity to help students through math problems and improved students’ performance in math, according to a Stanford University study.
The digital tool, Tutor CoPilot, was created by Stanford researchers to guide tutors, especially novices, in their interactions with students.
The study is the first randomized controlled trial to examine a human-AI partnership in live tutoring, according to the researchers. The study examines whether the tool is effective for improving tutors’ skills and students’ math learning.
It comes as tutoring has become a key learning-recovery tool. Schools, however, have run into challenges in scaling and sustaining tutoring programs because they require a lot of human tutors, time, and money.
In an interview with Education Week, Susanna Loeb, an education professor at Stanford and one of the study’s authors, discussed the creation of the tool, the trial findings, and its implications for schools.
This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
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