English-language teaching damages test scores | Times Higher Education (THE)
Authors of Swedish study caution that one experiment should not be used as basis for ‘radical overhaul’ of education policy but urge ‘more informed discussion’
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Authors of Swedish study caution that one experiment should not be used as basis for ‘radical overhaul’ of education policy but urge ‘more informed discussion’
Using English as the language of instruction in higher education has a marked negative impact on learning outcomes when it is not the students’ first language, according to a new study from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. When 2,000 Swedish students were divided up into English-language and Swedish-language versions of an introductory course in programming, those students who were taught in English obtained much worse results, and more dropped out of the course prematurely.
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Students are positive towards AI tools such as ChatGPT in education, but 62 percent believe that using chatbots during exams is cheating.