A study tracking more than 20,000 middle school students found that directly copying answers from AI improved homework scores but led to a significant decline in exam performance.用AI写作业：作业全对，考试变差 - Using AI for Homework: Perfect Assignments, Worse Exam Scores [HSK 5]Download the app here:Chinese Short Dialogue | App StoreChinese Short Dialogue | Google PlayAvailable in 8 languages on the app:Chinese Listening | 중국어 리스닝 | 中国語リスニング | Аудирование по китайскому языку | Nghe tiếng Trung | Mendengarkan bahasa Mandarin | Escucha en chino | การฟังภาษาจีน | Chinesisches Hören | Écoute du chinois | Ascolto cinese | Audição em chinês | चीनी सुनना | الاستماع إلى اللغة الصينية《English Translation》陈花: My students are driving me crazy. Almost all the homework they turned in this semester was correct, but their average score on the monthly exam actually dropped a lot.刘娜: Could they be using AI to do it? I just read a report about professors at the University of Hong Kong who tracked more than 20,000 middle school students and found exactly this kind of situation.陈花: Really? What exactly did the study say?刘娜: Students who asked AI to give them answers directly saw their homework scores rise by 18%, but within six months, their monthly exam scores fell by an average of 20%, and two years later, their high school entrance exam scores were down by as much as 24%.陈花: That's serious! I thought they'd finally gotten the hang of things. But almost everyone uses AI now, so we can't completely ban it, can we?刘娜: The study said that if students only asked AI to explain how to solve a problem and still spent time working through it carefully themselves, there was basically no impact. The problem was directly copying and pasting answers. And the better a student's grades were, the greater the impact.陈花: No wonder those top students in our class have been losing points on the big problems lately! Their parents probably don't even know they're using AI.刘娜: That's very possible. The report said half of parents didn't even know which AI their children were using. We definitely can't rely on the kids' self-discipline alone.陈花: Looks like I'll have to hold a class meeting tomorrow and have a serious talk with the parents too. Simply banning AI won't work. We need to help the kids understand for themselves how much they lose by copying answers.

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