Teachers experiencing higher average demand across lesson planning, assessment/marking, and special-education adaptation report higher odds of AI adoption¶

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q2 i1 A one-point increase in average focal-task demand is associated with 8.4% higher odds of reporting any AI use. → Holster 2026

Evidence¶

Holster 2026¶

Holster, J. (2026). Where Artificial Intelligence Enters Teacher Work. https://www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets/talis-2024-database.html doi:10.35542/osf.io/a39rp_v1

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Survey-weighted teacher-level logistic regression of TALIS 2024 adoption data for 56,669 teachers across 46 education-system samples, regressing AI adoption on mean focal-task demand with system indicators. The article reports "OR = 1.084, 95% CI [1.050, 1.120], p < .001".

"A one-point increase in average demand across the three matched domains was associated with 8.4% higher odds of reporting any AI use (OR = 1.084, 95% CI [1.050, 1.120], p < .001)."

Discussion¶

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• Assessment/marking shows an inverse demand–AI-use association in the primary system-average analysis, with predicted use falling 3.47 percentage points across a two-point relative-demand contrast — related
• Among AI-using teachers, tasks experienced as relatively more demanding are more likely to be AI-supported overall — related
• Special-education support/adaptation shows the strongest demand–AI-use alignment, with a 16.32-percentage-point increase in predicted use across a two-point relative-demand contrast — related
• Overall demand–AI-use alignment varies modestly across education systems, but task-specific association profiles show clear residual heterogeneity — related
• The within-teacher demand–AI-use association differs sharply across tasks, with only a modest positive planning gradient — related
• The prespecified task–demand mapping produces the strongest within-teacher alignment of all six possible one-to-one assignments, supporting task-specific rather than arbitrary demand alignment — related
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