Teachers Ask Better Questions With Feedback That’s Frequent, Personal, and AI-Generated, Study Shows

It’s been a year since ChatGPT stormed into classrooms. Its most common users have been students looking for homework aid—or shortcuts—and teachers who use it to create tailored, on-the-spot lesson plans.

A group of researchers, though, are asking a new question: Can generative AI help teachers teach better?

New research released in November shows that when teachers engage with frequent, personalized and on-demand feedback about their teaching practice, they ask richer, more analytical questions in their mathematics or science classes. The study, conducted by researchers from the University of Maryland, Harvard University, and Stanford University, also found that teachers engaged with feedback when it was directly emailed to them, suggesting that feedback needs to be provided in a succinct and accessible manner.