About and editorial policy

research.askpoppy.ai summarizes research on how people learn, in plain words, for parents, homeschoolers, IB and Waldorf families, self-directed learners aged 16 and over, and teachers.

Who writes it

The Ask Poppy team at Poppy Labs AS in Oslo, Norway, founded by Simon Dreyer. We make Ask Poppy, an AI tutor app, and free study tools at learn.askpoppy.ai. That is a conflict of interest on topics such as AI tutoring, so we disclose it here and on any page that mentions our app.

How summaries are written

• AI-assisted, checked by people. Drafts are written with AI help, then checked line by line against the paper. Every number on a page appears in the source.
• We say what we read. Each page says whether we read the full text, the abstract plus parts of the paper, or only the abstract.
• We say what kind of study it is (randomized trial, meta-analysis, observational cohort, lab experiment) and whether it was peer-reviewed or is a preprint or working paper.
• Limitations are required. Every summary lists them, including when authors evaluated their own product.
• No overstatement. Correlations are not described as causes, short-term results are not described as long-term, and a lab result is not described as a classroom result.
• Ask Poppy appears at most once per page, in a single "try it" line, and only where the research is about how tutoring works. Summaries do not claim the research proves anything about our app.

How papers are chosen

Mostly recent work (2024–2026) on AI tutors and cognitive offloading, retrieval practice, spacing, self-explanation, metacognition, Socratic and dialogic tutoring, voice and learning, motivation and homeschooling outcomes, plus a few landmark classics for context. We prefer randomized trials, meta-analyses and large cohorts, and we include studies whatever their findings, including ones that cut against AI tutoring.

Corrections

If a summary gets something wrong, email [email protected]. We fix errors and update the date on the page.

Privacy

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Reuse

You are welcome to quote and link to summaries. Please cite the original paper for any finding.