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by gsquaredxc 398 days ago
This study I feel is misleading at least at a headline. They found 6621 studies and narrowed it down to 51 studies to analyze. This is somewhat fine as meta-studies do need to narrow from the initial scope, but this is more aggressive than I have seen in the past. I haven't had time to view all of the studies, but from what I can tell most of the studies are somewhat specific. That is, they are asking "If we give students ChatGPT in specific situation (specialized prompts, supervised environments, etc) then can students succeed?" I worry that the headline is quite misleading in this instance. The overall study seems to ask "if we can align the stars would ChatGPT be helpful?" This is a useful question to ask, but certainly not equivalent to "is ChatGPT helping students learn right now?"