人工智能论文英文版-“[AI peers] are people learning from the same standpoint”：Perception of AI characters in a Collaborative Science Investigation.pdfVIP

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“[AIpeers]arepeoplelearningfromthesame

standpoint”:PerceptionofAIcharactersina

CollaborativeScienceInvestigation

SooHyoungJoo1†[0000-0003-1899-4333]andEunhyeGraceKo2†[0000-0002-8900-2197]

1Teacher’sCollege,ColumbiaUniversity,NewYork,NY10027,USA

2SchoolofInformation,TheUniversityofTexasatAustinTX78701,USA

†Co–firstauthors(theseauthorscontributedequallytothiswork).

shj2118@,eko@

Abstract.Whilethecomplexityof21st-centurydemandshaspromotedpedagogical

approachestofostercomplexcompetencies,apersistentgapremainsbetweenin-classlearning

activitiesandindividualizedlearningorassessmentpractices.Toaddressthisgap,studieshave

exploredtheuseofAI-generatedcharactersinlearningandassessment.Onesuchattemptis

scenario-basedassessment(SBA),atechniquethatnotonlymeasuresbutalsofostersthe

developmentofcompetenciesthroughouttheassessmentprocess.SBAintroducessimulated

agentstoprovideanauthenticsocial-interactionalcontextallowingfortheassessmentof

competency-basedconstructswhilemitigatingtheunpredictabilityofreal-lifeinteractions.

RecentadvancementsinmultimodalAI,suchastext-to-videotechnology,allowtheseagentsto

beenhancedtoAI-generatedcharacters.Thisexplanatorymixed-methodstudyinvestigates

howlearnersperceivedtheAIcharacterstakingtheroleofmentorandteammatesinanSBA

mirroringthecontextofperformingacollaborativescienceinvestigation.Specifically,we

examinedtheLikertscaleresponsesof56highschoollearnersperceptionoftheAIcharacters,

intermsoftrust,socialpresence,andeffectiveness.Wealsoanalyzedtherelationshipsbetween

thesefactorsandtheirimpactontheintentiontoadoptAIcharactersforfuturelearn