When AI assistance is withdrawn, student performance tends to decline, revealing a lack of internalized learning strategies¶
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q2 i? Performance tends to decline when AI assistance is withdrawn, and students often fail to regain full autonomy even with metacognitive scaffolds. → Favero 2025
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Favero 2025¶
Favero, L., Pérez-Ortiz, J. A., Käser, T., & Oliver, N. (2025). Do AI tutors empower or enslave learners? Toward a critical use of AI in education. Applications of Generative AI to support teaching and learning in Higher Education, co-located with AIED 2025, Palermo, Italy. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06878 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.06878
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The paper attributes to Darvishi et al. the finding that "When AI assistance is withdrawn, performance tends to decline", indicating students had not internalized learning strategies and self-monitoring habits. No effect size is printed.
"When AI assistance is withdrawn, performance tends to decline, revealing a lack of internalized learning strategies and self-monitoring habits [10]. Even when AI is used in conjunction with metacognitive scaffolds, students often fail to regain full autonomy."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- The decisive empirical test of AI-augmented instruction frameworks is whether students retain representational competence when AI support is withdrawn — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Robotic projected AI assistance yields 60% higher short-term learning transfer than screen-based ChatGPT once assistance is withdrawn — related
- Reviewed literature reports risks of overreliance, AI errors in complex tasks, and students' uncritical acceptance of AI-generated outputs — a broader claim this one bears on
- Scaffolding improves learning — related
- Self-regulated learning improves achievement — related
- A contingent AI tutor places metacognitive demand equal to a question-only tutor and higher than an answer-on-request assistant — related
- Product-outcome studies report GenAI-related gains on product-quality measures but do not assess durable, transferable learning — related
- Learners often fail to regulate their own learning in computer-based learning environments — a broader claim this one bears on
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When AI assistance is withdrawn, student performance tends to decline, revealing a lack of internalized learning strategies |
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When AI assistance is withdrawn, student performance tends to decline, revealing a lack of internalized learning strategies |
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