Generative AI in K-12 Education: The CyberScholar Initiative

This paper evaluates CyberScholar, a GenAI writing assistant that provides formative feedback aligned with teacher rubrics in K-12 classrooms (grades 7-11) across multiple subject areas. The study uses observations, surveys, and interviews with 121 students and 4 teachers to assess the tool's impact on writing quality, metacognition, and student-teacher interactions.

This paper focuses on the piloting of CyberScholar, a Generative AI assistant tool that aims to provide formative feedback on writing in K-12 contexts. Specifically, this study explores how students worked with CyberScholar in diverse subject areas, including English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Modern World History classes in Grades 7, 8, 10, and 11 in three schools in the Midwest and one in the Northwest of the United States. This paper focuses on CyberScholar's potential to support K-12

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