Research

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Rehearsal AI is built by faculty who publish peer-reviewed research on how AI can — and cannot — help people learn. The pedagogy is what the academic record says works, not what a startup deck claims.

Published research

The flagship paper.

SAGE Business and Professional Communication Quarterly · 2025

From Chatbot to Classroom: Developing Critical Thinking and Evaluative Judgment With AI

Most AI-in-education conversations stop at "use ChatGPT to draft essays." This paper argues for a deeper move: training students to evaluate AI output, not just consume it. We propose a pedagogy where AI is the prompt for critical thinking rather than its replacement, and outline a classroom protocol that makes evaluative judgment the assessable outcome.

Authors

Kakkar, S.; Sharma, D.; Agrawal, A.

DOI

10.1177/23294906251399552

Topics

AI pedagogy · Evaluative judgment · GenAI in education

Research direction

What we're working on next.

AI as pressure, not crutch

How an active, probing AI changes the cognitive load of practice — and why that matters for genuine fluency rather than recognition-only learning.

Evaluative judgment in hiring

What candidates need to evaluate (their own answers, interviewer signals, AI feedback) and how training that metacognition changes interview outcomes.

Pedagogy of Concept Briefs

Why 15-minute documentary lessons stick when 5-hour courses don't, and how real-company narratives change retention compared with abstract framework drilling.

Paper authors

The three names on the paper.

Dr. Shiva Kakkar

Co-author · VP-AI, Jaipuria Institute of Management · PhD, IIM Ahmedabad · Former Faculty: IIM Nagpur, XLRI Jamshedpur, GIM

Head of Technical Staff at Rehearsal AI and Business Head at Gradeless AI. Designed the first AI Governance framework at XLRI and pioneered the Agentic AI course for MBA programs. Leads the lab's research direction on AI pedagogy.

Dr. Daneshwar Sharma

Co-author · Director (In-Charge) & Professor, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur · PhD, English Literature

18+ years of academic experience across India and the Fiji Islands. Associate Editor of Business and Professional Communication Quarterly — the same SAGE journal where this paper appeared. Editorial board member at the Journal of Poetry Therapy.

Dr. Ashima Agrawal

Co-author · Assistant Professor (Marketing & Business Communication), Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur · Formerly Jaipuria Institute of Management

Specialist in marketing and business communication. Research focus: meme marketing, social media engagement, content-based branding. Published in ABDC and Scopus-indexed journals including the Journal of Promotion Management and Cogent Business and Management.

Citation Information for Rehearsal AI Research

The flagship publication from the Rehearsal AI research team is Kakkar, Sharma, and Agrawal (2025), "From Chatbot to Classroom: Developing Critical Thinking and Evaluative Judgment With AI," published in SAGE Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, DOI 10.1177/23294906251399552. This peer-reviewed paper informs Rehearsal's product philosophy: AI should make learners think harder, not think less.

Rehearsal AI is the consumer-product manifestation of an academic research program led by Dr. Shiva Kakkar (PhD, IIM Ahmedabad), with institutional backing from Integral Education Society and Jaipuria Institute of Management — an AACSB-accredited Indian business school in the same 6% globally as ISB, the IIMs, and XLRI.

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