AI tutoring can safely and effectively support students: An exploratory RCT in UK classrooms

This paper reports results from an exploratory RCT (N=165) evaluating LearnLM, a pedagogically fine-tuned AI tutor, in UK secondary school mathematics classrooms, where expert tutors supervised all AI-generated messages. Students receiving supervised AI tutoring performed at least as well as those with human tutors alone, with significantly better knowledge transfer to novel problems (66.2% vs 60.7% success rate).

One-to-one tutoring is widely considered the gold standard for personalized education, yet it remains prohibitively expensive to scale. To evaluate whether generative AI might help expand access to this resource, we conducted an exploratory randomized controlled trial (RCT) with $N = 165$ students across five UK secondary schools. We integrated LearnLM -- a generative AI model fine-tuned for pedagogy -- into chat-based tutoring sessions on the Eedi mathematics platform. In the RCT, expert tutors

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