OECD Study: Moderate AI Use in Schools Linked to Better Student Performance, While Excessive Use Harms Critical Thinking

Summary

An OECD PISA study found that while AI use is linked to a decline in student skills and test scores, moderate AI use (once or twice a week) for tasks like summarizing or preliminary research correlates with similar or stronger performance compared to non-users. Excessive or rare AI use, however, is associated with lower scores and a decline in critical thinking skills.