Survey of Use of Artificial Intelligence in Student Tutoring in Higher Education

Survey of Use of Artificial Intelligence in Student Tutoring in Higher Education


A near majority of 48.39% chose “Not very important” while an additional 41.94% chose “Not at all important” and 9.68% chose “a top priority but not the most important.” All of those choosing “a top priority” were BA/MA or doctoral evel colleges; none were research universities or community colleges. All were private colleges and none were public colleges.


This study looks at how 31 college and university tutoring programs are using artificial intelligence applications in their student tutoring efforts, focusing especially on the use of ChatGPT, Bard, Llama and AI-enabled Bing.  Survey respondents discuss and evaluate the extent to which their college administration support AI efforts in tutoring, and how the tutoring programs themselves expect to use AI in the future.  The study presents specific data sets for use of particular AI applications, and for use of AI in particular types of subject tutoring, including specific data sets for writing, mathematics, social sciences, hard sciences and many other subject areas.  It also looks at the current and expected impact of AI on use of human tutors, peer tutors, and on tutor training.

Table 1.1.1 Which of the following applications have you used routinely in your work? Bard
Table 1.1.2 Which of the following applications have you used routinely in your work? Bard Broken out by enrollment
Table 1.1.3 Which of the following applications have you used routinely in your work? Bard Broken out by tuition. $
Table 1.1.4 Which of the following applications have you used routinely in your work? Bard Broken out by type of college or Carnegie Class
Table 1.1.5 Which of the following applications have you used routinely in your work? Bard Broken out by public or private college

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