Experiment finds AI-based intervention helps undergrads pass STEM course

U.S. college students majoring in STEM fields currently graduate about 20% less often than their non-STEM peers, a resounding clarion call for better assisting those students, especially in their first few semesters. Though systemic, long-term shifts—away from lecturing, toward the sharing of evidence-based teaching practices—should help, the inertia of academia can sometimes slow their adoption.