identifying effective strategies for algorithm design 2 . This method isparticularly useful in computational contexts, where understanding the “why” behind code is ascrucial as the “how” 2 . In addition, AI tools, such as ChatGPT, can be used as an educationalresource to support learning and research, but educators need to be proficient in their use tointegrate them effectively 6,3 . However, AI cannot replace key higher order skills, as was shownwhen analyzing AI-generated laboratory reports in chemistry, which highlighted severaldeficiencies, such as inability to maintain consistency, generate references, and suggestexperimental errors 3 .In the realm of computational thinking, algorithmic explanations can serve as a powerful meansof instruction
ChatGPT [1], Google’s Gemini [2],and Microsoft’s Copilot [3] have gained widespread student adoption due to their free access andease of use. This expansion has occurred amid varying acceptance [4–6] and trust [7] in digitallearning technologies across student populations through the COVID-19 pandemic and into thepresent day. Approximately one-third (35.4%) of students reported regular usage of ChatGPT,while 47% expressed concern about AI’s impact in education [8]. Additionally, 60% reported thattheir instructors or schools had not yet provided guidelines for ethical or responsible AI tool use [8].As students increasingly use available online AI assistants, researchers have concurrently devel-oped specialized educational AI tools designed
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publications have been recognized by leading engineering education research journalsat both national and international levels. Dr. McCall has led several workshops promoting the inclusionof people with disabilities and other minoritized groups in STEM. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees incivil engineering with a structural engineering emphasis. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 WIP: Understanding Patterns of Generative AI Use: A Study of Student Learning Across University CollegesIntroductionDue to the relatively recent introduction of AI to academia, facilitated by the development andrelease of popular generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, few studies have examined theeffects of AI use on
future role of generative AI in creativity and design, how you might utilize what you have learned in the course, and reflections on what you are learning in the course and the creative process. You should plan on writing at least a few paragraphs in this section every week.Figure 2. Descriptions for the sections that constitute the Foundational Creativity part of the Creativity Portfolio. Part 2: AI + Creativity Now is the time to use AI. For this section, please use your preferred generative AI tool (examples include Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT) and write down which one(s) you used. Please record every prompt and output (yes, these sections will be long). Make sure your prompts are
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Education, 2025 Barkplug 2.0 and Beyond: a Chatbot for Assisting Students in High DFW CoursesAbstractHigher education continues to respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by artificialintelligence (AI) and large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT. In our prior work weintroduced a chatbot that used AI and LLM to recruit prospective students, assist current studentswith academic advising (course selection, changing majors) and student affairs (directingstudents to university resources regarding the campus community, housing and dining, studentorganizations, mental health and more). Towards the promotion of student success initiatives wereport in this work our formulation of course specific teaching
developing systemscapable of performing tasks that usually require human intelligence, including learning,reasoning, and decision-making [21]. Generative AI (Gen-AI) is a subset of AI thatspecializes in creating human-like content, including text, images, and audio [22]. With AI'srecent innovations, many have explored its educational applications. Many educatorscurrently utilize AI tools to increase efficiency within the classroom [1]. Two examples ofGen AI tools include 1) ChatGPT, a generative AI chatbot, and 2) Grammarly, an AI-powered writing assistant. Both tools have proven valuable educational assistants [2, 3].GenAI can help educators with tasks like creating assessments and streamliningadministrative tasks and lessons [23, 24]. In the field
Excel file. The retrieved transcripts were thenprocessed to convert them into text from transcript form. This involved the removal of timestamps and correction of word spacing. Stage 3: Transcript Evaluation: For this study, we built off ongoing work by members ofthe research team to adapt a framework to perform deductive thematic analyses [redacted; underreview]. This method leverages a combination of prompt engineering techniques (PETs), naturallanguage processing via large language models (NPL via LLMs; i.e., ChatGPT), and Bradley etal.’s framework on thematic analysis. Appendix B details the exact prompts used to extractrelevant themes and ideas from the transcripts. Bradley et al.’s study outlined a method whereseveral codes should
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community of practice focusing on engineering lab writing education. Thispaper presents the content, delivery, and results of the professional development workshop onengineering lab writing.2. Workshop Content and DeliveryThe workshop was designed for the participants to conduct the following in a small groupsetting: 1) develop engineering lab report assignments; 2) improve engineering lab reportassessment; 3) guide students in navigating writing with generative AI (ChatGPT-4); and 4) trainlab teaching assistants or lab report graders. Participants accessed the guides (available atengineeringlabwriting.org) to design and develop sample labs, discuss issues related to labwriting and how to deliver lab writing expectations, and provide feedback to
it is not taken personally. I think everyone made kind and helpful comments that reassures me and I appreciate that I am able to know what they think of me so I know how to improve. he feedback I received was helpful and not as intimidating to receive so I think next T time I won't be as scared to share how I feel about my teammates in terms of the work they put in because I like that ChatGPT is another layer and it is ultimately helpful to get this feedback. tudents also stated that they felt like they could provide negative feedback instead of focusingSon just positive feedback, “I enjoyed the AI-generated feedback reports because they allowed team members to be
Corrected Question P-Value Mean Mean P-Value I use CodeHelp because the professor told us we could use it in the class. 3.80 3.72 0.6615 1.0000 I prefer CodeHelp to ChatGPT because it does not give me the answer directly. 3.56 3.79 0.2056 0.9937 I believe that CodeHelp gives me just enough information to continue my work without
personalizationdevelop custom graphical user interfaces (GUI)—such as that developed in the follow-up studyby Vaccaro et al. [22]—rather than rely on public-facing interfaces like ChatGPT as it minimizesthe potential for user error. Such a controlled GUI is also beneficial from an experimental contextwhere consistency in implementation is of critical importance. Finally, it should be noted thatsuch an environment allows for strict control over the types of information students can sharewith an LLM, thus maintaining student privacy.Integration of Personalized Learning in Engineering Education through LLMsThe integration of PL into engineering education through advanced AI and LLMs represents atransformative yet nascent field. The use of cutting-edge LLMs, such
parameters.Appendix 4 details the performance of the Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity AI tools in thesetasks, providing practical examples of their capabilities. Through a mixed-methodology approachthat includes a literature review, case studies, and practical experimentation, this researchexplores how AI can optimize these areas and develops a theoretical and practical frameworkthat guides its effective and ethical implementation.Research ObjectivesThe primary purpose of this study is to explore and assess the impact of Artificial Intelligence(AI) on the management and operation of Information Systems (IS) within educational andbusiness environments. Specifically, the research aims to:1. Evaluate how AI can improve operational efficiency in information
. The session then transitions to the transformative role of Transformers in NLP, focusing on their improvements over RNNs without delving into advanced mathematical details. This leads to the discussion of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT [8], emphasizing their engineering applications. Students learn to use ChatGPT’s API to integrate NLP into workflows, with a Python example showing how to send prompts, receive responses, and maintain conversational context by including prior interactions. These hands-on examples help MET students understand the practical applications of NLP tools like LLMs in solving engineering problems. • Topic 8: Reinforcement Learning (RL) – The last topic
: 1. the statement of the lawyer in printed form. This also con- tains the correct information about the sources that were en- tered into the chatbot to gener- ate the statement with ChatGPT. When creating the printed statement, the rules of academic
, showcasing an enhanced ability to analyze and learn from failure. Table 4: Summary of ChatGPT comparison of pre-course and post-course responses to “How would you define a healthy mindset toward failure?” Pre- Post- Change Example Pre-Course Theme Course Course Example Post-Course Response (%) Response (%) (%) "By viewing it as a steppingstone to fully Focus on learning and understanding the content
from AI – and discovered a bimodal distribution. Thus, weshow that the student body at Mines is polarized with respect to future impacts of GenAI on theengineering workforce and society, despite being increasingly willing to explore GenAI overtime. We discuss implications of these findings for future research and for integrating GenAI inengineering education.IntroductionRecent advancements in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), esp. large language models(LLMs) like ChatGPT, have significantly impacted both industry and educational sectors [1, 2].These models, equipped with sophisticated algorithms and trained on vast datasets, canunderstand and generate human-like text [3], expanding their use from simple text prediction tocomposing
problem generation has beenstudied since the mid-1960s [26], the accessibility and sophistication of modern AI models havesignificantly enhanced the personalization, generation speed, and robustness of these problems.Recent efforts, such as the use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate problems in real-time withinclassroom settings, have demonstrated the potential of these tools to adapt dynamically tolearners’ needs [27]. This approach is gaining traction, particularly in K–12 education, wherepersonalized arithmetic problems are being used to establish meaningful context for students[28], [29]. While these tools have been emerging, a formal tool designed for engineeringeducation and the challenges first-year students face in calculus has yet to be
. James XXXX, Dean XXXX, Devon XXXX, and SierraXXXX are introduced below.Dean XXXXDean XXXX is a college professor with over 25 years of teaching experience in computerscience and mathematics. Dean was given his first Artificial Intelligence course back in 2002,with students using the Lisp programming language to implement a Minimax lookahead strategyfor the classic board game Othello. Since then, he has taught classes, conducted personalresearch, and written stories involving AI. Since the boom of ChatGPT and other large languagemodels, Dean has focused his attention on the ethics of AI and its potential ramifications onsociety. This semester, Dean is teaching a 400-level computer science course and a 100-levelfirst-year seminar focusing on the
most people in the first world to access (at reasonable cost) fabrication technology and computation at the scale of an individual — this trend, pushed by artists [5] and engineers, makes the public and our students not only aware but experienced in building things using these tools. However, the assumption that a student, because they lived before or during a technology emergence, is strongly skilled with that technology is false [6].The biggest of these trends that we address in this work is trend 4, commonly referred to in thegeneral population as chatbots such as ChatGPT — the continued emergence of AI capabilities —specifically, the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) [7] means our curriculums need tobe
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structure or by tweaking HTML and CSS. This activity tied in data structures, how the web works (client/server and networking), and basic AI.Figure 2. Eliza snapshotThe afternoon session introduced LLMs using ChatGPT. A two-server setup with provided codeenabled access to the OpenAI’s API, with one server a modified version of the Eliza server fromthe morning, and the other a custom proxy server to enable access to the API with revealing APIkeys. The proxy server also pruned prompts to ChatGPT to ensure responses matched the formatof non-ChatGPT version of the Eliza chatbot. Campers concluded the day by conducting theTuring test for themselves in their groups at each table.Day 3 featured game
of a departmental initiative to incorporatecomputation and computational thinking into the curriculum by integrating computational toolswith course fundamentals. This effort commenced just before the rapid emergence of ChatGPT[5] in late 2022. Since we only have anecdotal evidence about AI’s impact, we defer discussingthis topic to a future study. The insights here are based on surveys designed to collect baselineinformation about student attitudes toward computational tools in their courses, and to explorewhether these have changed over time in select courses, considering both lower level to higherlevel courses.2. BackgroundThe general framework for our effort to integrate computation and computational thinking isgrounded in our department
-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) in the classroom. Evidencesuggests student use of ChatGPT can enhance academic performance, boost affective-motivational states, improve higher-order thinking propensities and reduce mental effort [3].This evolving AI landscape encourages those in higher education to reassess goals, teachingmethods, and assessment strategies. The impact of AI tools is far-reaching and has alreadycaused educators to rethink Bloom’s taxonomy (Table 1) to distinguish between distinctivehuman skills in the learning process and the role of generative AI (Gen AI) tools such asChatGPT in the learning process. Table 1: Bloom’s Taxonomy comparison of human skills in learning and generative AI skills in learning. Adapted from [4
of the dual-submission strategies, there is more variety to what is submitted for thesecond deadline. Sometimes students are asked to self-grade their homework [2–4]; usually theyare asked to make corrections, and some strategies ask them to undertake other activities, such asa quiz [5], group discussion [6–7], filling in missing steps in a derivation [8], or filling out a“homework wrapper” [9–10] that asks about the strategies that students used in doing thehomework and how successful they proved to be.However, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT presents a challenge. Thesemodels can solve simple homework problems, but can they also produce credible reflections? IfLLMs can generate authentic-looking reflections, the dual
services to boost productivity and streamline tasks. Google Scholar,for instance, provides a free database that helps students find scholarly articles, research papers,and other academic resources for their projects [15]. Notion serves as an all-in-one productivityplatform, combining note-taking, project management, and collaboration features, making itespecially useful for group work and managing busy schedules [15]. Grammarly, an AI-poweredwriting assistant, helps students refine their writing by checking for grammar, spelling,punctuation, and style while also offering suggestions for improving clarity and organization[14]. ChatGPT stands out as a powerful tool for homework assistance, test preparation,language learning, and other
content delivery, forprompting discussions and immersing students better in the content, but noted that AI cannotreplicate the empathy humans share.AI literacy influenced instructor’s technological knowledge (TK) by enabling them toexperiment with AI tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, for tasks such as lesson planning andcontent generation. However, skepticism remained about the effectiveness of these tools intechnical fields, with Michael stating, “I tried using AI to generate slides, but it wasn’t fruitful”.Pedagogical knowledge (PK) was adapted to mitigate AI misuse by students, with instructorsincorporating probing techniques to elicit genuine responses and deeper engagement. Some hadintentionally utilized AI to generate incorrect answers to
. The destination and future use of the data that iscollected through interactions with the chatbot is unknown. Therefore, conversations with thechatbot should be limited to typical projects and assignments, not classified research or researchwhere intellectual property may be a concern. For example, as noted by [9], ChatGPT andpresumably other GPT and AI tools are not HIPAA compliant. As such, students and users of AIshould understand the privacy constraints concerning the use of their data.Bias – Bias appears to exist in the chatbots, perhaps as a result of the corpus of data that themodel was trained upon [8]. Bias was also cited as a concern by [9]. It is important thatconsumers of the output of chatbots understand this dynamic as an