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    How to Test AI Research Tools: A Repeatability Worksheet and Worked Example

    By AI News & Updates Editorial Team

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    Level College / Upper Division (Undergraduates), Graduate / Professional, Career / Technical, Adult Education · For Student, Teacher, Librarian · Language English

    Abstract

    A free teaching activity for evaluating AI literature-search assistants through repeated use rather than one polished response. Learners run the same scholarly-search task three times, preserve visible sources, log test conditions and access failures, verify selected claims and classify results as stable, partially repeatable or unstable. The page includes a reusable five-page worksheet and a public 15-run example dataset covering ResearchRabbit, Elicit, Scite, Consensus and Undermind. The example is explicitly a small, dated free-tier observation set, not a universal product ranking.

    Keywords Artificial Intelligence · AI Research Assistants · Repeatability · Source Verification · Research Methods · Information Literacy · Open Data