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Postawy studentów wobec ChatGPT w edukacji
Students’ Attitudes Towards ChatGPT in Education

Author(s): Agnieszka Franczyk, Anna Rajchel
Subject(s): Higher Education , ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Sociology of Education
Published by: Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie
Keywords: ChatGPT; artificial intelligence; education; students; attitudes;

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of the article is to characterize students’ attitudes towardsChatGPT in education.THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The main research question was: What are theattitudes of students towards ChatGPT in education? Moreover, an attempt was made to deter-mine how individual components of students’ attitudes (behavioral, cognitive, emotional) towardsChatGPT are differentiated by the type of studied field (social-humanistic vs. scientific). The diag-nostic survey method was used. To collect the necessary data, an online questionnaire was used.The study involved 189 students aged 17 to 52 (M = 21.83, SD = 4.96).THE PROCES OF ARGUMENTATION: The theoretical part of the text explains what artificial in-telligence (AI) is and characterizes ChatGPT. Scientific works addressing the issues of opportuni-ties and threats of using the language model in education were indicated. The empirical part pre-sents the results of own research and conclusions.RESEARCH RESULTS: Student attitudes towards ChatGPT vary. Nevertheless, students of sci-ences are definitely more positive than those of social and humanities, which is expressed in theirbeliefs about the tool and the dominant emotions. A positive attitude also signals the fact of testingthe chatbot and the willingness to use it in the near future.CONSULSIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND APPLICABLE VALUE OF RESEARCH: It isworth teachers preparing for the fact that ChatGPT will be used by students and it would be good forthem to learn how to use it. It is worth developing regulations specifying the extent to which studentsand teachers can use ChatGPT in education. It is also worth monitoring attitudes towards ChatGPT,because they will certainly change as knowledge and experience in using AI increases. The conduct-ed research can contribute to the analysis of educational behaviours among young people using AI.

  • Issue Year: 23/2024
  • Issue No: 65
  • Page Range: 89-101
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish
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