1、JULIA H.KAUFMAN,ASHLEY WOO,JOSHUA EAGAN,SABRINA LEE,EMMA B.KASSANUneven Adoption of Artificial Intelligence Tools Among U.S.Teachers and Principals in the 20232024 School YearAccording to a RAND American Teacher Panel survey of K12 public school teachers in fall 2023,nearly one in five teachers was

2、using artificial intelligence(AI)tools for teach-ing,with even higher proportions of English language arts(ELA)or social studies teachers doing so(Diliberti et al.,2024).Another survey from Impact Research(2023)suggested that the use of AI among teachers could be even higher,but mea-surement challen

3、ges make it dif-ficult to know for sure.1 Further-more,upward of 90 percent of a large sample of school district superintendents who were sur-veyed in the 20232024 school year(EAB,2024)agreed that AI“will transform the way we edu-cate students within five years.”That said,a little more than one-thir

4、d of those superintendents indicated that their districts had plans for supporting or training teachers on their use of AI.In this report,we follow up on Diliberti et al.(2024)byagainasking teachers about their use of AI tools for Research ReportKEY FINDINGS Comparable with previous surveys of the A

5、merican Teacher Panel,the results indicate that one-quarter of ELA,math,and science teachers used AI tools for instructional planning or teaching in the 20232024 school year.Nearly 60 percent of surveyed American School Leader Panel principals also reported using AI tools for their work in 20232024.

6、Although one-quarter of teachers overall reported using AI tools,the authors observed variation in use by subject taught and some school characteristics.For example,almost 40 percent of ELA or science teachers reported using AI compared with 20 percent of general elementary education or math teacher