Everyone talks everything with ChatGPT : students' uses of ChatGPT and their impact on learning performance

Petrič, Gregor (author)

Research suggests that ChatGPT offers numerous affordances for students, who use it for various purposes, yet the field lacks quantitative studies that offer insight into a variety of students' actual uses of ChatGPT and their impact on academic performance. The main aims of this paper were (a) to introduce and validate a typology of students' ChatGPT uses, (b) to identify clusters of students with similar patterns of ChatGPT uses, and (c) to investigate the impact of ChatGPT uses on academic performance. An online survey research was conducted, which resulted in a typology of 10 distinct uses of ChatGPT and four distinct clusters of students. The strongest predictor of academic performance is information searching and explanation. Problematic use of ChatGPT, while resulting in improved grades, is found to be detrimental to competencies. Although the study might not fully represent the diversity of students' experiences across academic institutions, the typology offers a baseline for nuanced research and interventions pertaining to particular ChatGPT uses among students.

• Language: English
• Keywords: informatics, ChatGPT, students, study, learning
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.08.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 1-22
• Numbering: Vol. 20, iss. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164338
• UDC: 659.2
• ISSN on article: 1548-3908
• DOI: 10.4018/IJTHI.349225
• COBISS.SI-ID: 205168387
• Publication date in RUL: 22.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of technology and human interaction
• Shortened title: Int. j. technol. hum. interact
• Publisher: Idea Group Pub.
• ISSN: 1548-3908
• COBISS.SI-ID: 513432857

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: informatika, ChatGPT, študentje, študij, učenje

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0168-2015
• Name: Družboslovna metodologija, statistika in informatika