Students‘ reflections on their experience with ChatGPT

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Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jcal.12967" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jcal.12967</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12967" target="_blank" >10.1111/jcal.12967</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Students‘ reflections on their experience with ChatGPT

Original language description

Background: The emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence has brought a number of ethical and practical issues to higher education. Solid experimental evidence is yet inadequate to set the functional rules for the new technology. Objectives: The objective of this study is to analyse the experience of undergraduate students’ interaction with ChatGPT and contribute to identifying the problems arising from the widespread use of artificial intelligence. Methods: Junior university students (N = 25) were assigned the task of working on their seminar essays with the aid of ChatGPT. Most students were novices with this tool (the study was conducted in the spring of 2023). Their essays were analysed qualitatively, according to the principles of the general inductive approach. Results and Conclusions: The initial attitudes towards artificial intelligence were almost equally distributed from enthusiastic to indifferent and cautious, with one student refusing to interact with the chatbot on ideological grounds. After the first experience, most of the students declared themselves adopters of the new technology. We have found some evidence for enhancing critical thinking competence when using ChatGPT, as well as examples of unquestioned reliance on its outputs. The tendency to personification of the chatbot was apparent in the students‘ essays. Implications: The findings show how easily the students embrace artificial intelligence and suggest a failure of any attempts for its strict regulation. This, on the other hand, underlines the need for emphasis on personal and research-oriented approaches in teaching and learning.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50300 - Education

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

ISSN

1365-2729

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2024

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Mar

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001182199500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85187478918