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Claire Gibson

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Sep 8, 2026

17:13
That's right.
17:16
um so in a nutshell harvard ran a randomized control trial it was in a physics department so um the professors did a sort of in-classroom active learning so that was already sort of like the gold standard kind of face-to-face um in-person learning and then the same professors created essentially a kind of custom AI tutor.
17:44
So it was built by the instructors themselves and following kind of best practice and the content from the syllabus.
17:52
Every student experienced both conditions.
17:54
So in week one, half the class got the AI lesson and half didn't, but vice versa.
18:02
Everyone sat a pre-test before the lesson and a post-test after.
18:05
So that's really where they can, I suppose, getting the information from.
19:00
You know,

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