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Enhancing Performance in Academic Tasks: Challenges and Opportunities in University Students’ Use of ChatGPT (93286)
Session Chair: Filipa Rodrigues
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Saturday, 14 June 2025 10:50
Session: Session 2
Room: Live-Stream Room 3
Presentation Type:Live-Stream Presentation
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The use of ChatGPT has brought about a revolution in education and the completion of academic tasks, especially in high school and university environments. In this pilot study, we recruited twenty-eight university students to qualitatively and quantitatively analyse the performance of an academic task using the internet, including the possibility of consulting ChatGPT. The tasks performed by each student were recorded while their screen activity and eye movements were being captured. The results show that only the third part of the students used ChatGPT for their searches in completing the academic task. They also reveal that the main difficulties encountered by the university students analysed were as follows: formulating search terms in a search engine or prompts in ChatGPT, selecting sources based on reliability elements beyond the title of a result, comparing sources consulted, integrating and comparing information from diverse sources, and citing references properly. Based on these results, we conclude that university students' use of the Internet, specifically ChatGPT, would require greater attention from their educators. For example, training courses should be carried out, and more emphasis could be placed on the subjects that they regularly take in their university programs, to help students overcome those difficulties and to enhance the potential of the internet and, specifically ChatGPT, to learn, taking profit of the affordances of these tools when are used adequately.
Authors:
Esther Argelagós, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Blanca Campos, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Èlia Casanovas, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Aina Caritg, Universitat de Girona, Spain
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Esther Argelagós is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology/Lecturer at the Universitat de Girona, Spain.
Additional website of interest
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6425-1499
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