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title: "All learning research summaries (2026)"
description: "Every plain-language summary on research.askpoppy.ai, newest research first, with study type and whether we read the full paper."
canonical: https://research.askpoppy.ai/papers/
last_updated: 2026-10-21
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# All summaries

Newest research first. Classics are marked as such.

| Summary | Year | Study type | Read |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [With AI, people scored better on reasoning puzzles but overestimated how well they did](/papers/fernandes-2026-ai-makes-you-smarter-but-none-the-wiser/) | 2026 | Two online experiments | Abstract only |
| [Unrestricted ChatGPT help raised practice scores but lowered exam scores](/papers/bastani-2025-generative-ai-without-guardrails-harms-learning/) | 2025 | Preregistered randomized controlled trial (field experiment) | Full text read |
| [Six weeks of teacher-guided AI tutoring improved English results in Nigeria](/papers/de-simone-2025-chalkboards-to-chatbots-nigeria/) | 2025 | Randomized controlled trial | Abstract and parts of the full text read |
| [A carefully designed AI tutor beat an active-learning physics class on a short-term test](/papers/kestin-2025-ai-tutoring-outperforms-active-learning/) | 2025 | Randomized controlled trial with a crossover design | Full text read |
| ["Your Brain on ChatGPT": what the MIT essay-writing study did and didn't show](/papers/kosmyna-2025-your-brain-on-chatgpt-cognitive-debt/) | 2025 | Lab experiment with EEG | Full text read |
| [Supervised AI tutoring matched human tutors in UK maths classrooms](/papers/learnlm-eedi-2025-ai-tutoring-uk-classrooms-rct/) | 2025 | Exploratory randomized controlled trial | Full text read |
| [ChatGPT made research feel easier but students' reasoning was weaker than with Google](/papers/stadler-2024-cognitive-ease-at-a-cost-llm-vs-search/) | 2024 | Randomized experiment | Abstract only |
| [An AI coach for human tutors raised topic mastery, most for weaker tutors](/papers/wang-2024-tutor-copilot-human-ai-tutoring/) | 2024 | Preregistered randomized controlled trial | Full text read |
| [Reading aloud helps you remember a text, but not understand it better](/papers/roberts-2023-reading-aloud-memory-not-comprehension/) | 2023 | Four lab experiments | Abstract only |
| [Homeschooled teens in a large US cohort: more volunteering, fewer college degrees](/papers/chen-2021-school-types-homeschooling-young-adult-outcomes/) | 2021 | Longitudinal cohort study (observational) | Full text read |
| [Which kinds of motivation go with doing well: a meta-analysis of 223,209 students](/papers/howard-2021-student-motivation-self-determination-meta-analysis/) | 2021 | Meta-analysis | Abstract only |
| [Quizzing boosts classroom learning: a meta-analysis of 222 studies](/papers/yang-2021-testing-boosts-classroom-learning-meta-analysis/) | 2021 | Systematic review and meta-analysis | Abstract only |
| [Prompting learners to explain to themselves helps: a meta-analysis of 64 reports](/papers/bisra-2018-inducing-self-explanation-meta-analysis/) | 2018 | Meta-analysis | Abstract and parts of the full text read |
| [Spacing beats cramming: the classic review of 317 experiments](/papers/cepeda-2006-distributed-practice-meta-analysis/) | 2006 | Review and meta-analysis (landmark classic) | Full text read |
| [The classic study: testing yourself beats rereading after a week](/papers/roediger-karpicke-2006-test-enhanced-learning/) | 2006 | Lab experiments (landmark classic) | Abstract only |

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