Essay quality was highest for AI-generated drafts and lowest with no AI, negatively correlated with ownership, suggesting an ownership-quality tradeoff.¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? AI draft increased essay quality significantly over No AI and the other AI support conditions on the 0–9 composite quality outcome. → quality-figure

Evidence¶

quality-figure¶

Katy Ilonka Gero, Tao Long, Carly Schnitzler, and Paramveer S. Dhillon. 2026. From Planning to Revision: How AI Writing Support at Different Stages Alters Ownership. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '26), June 13–17, 2026, Singapore, Singapore. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3813003

q3 · i? · causal · r2

RQ3 results (Figure 6) for the n=253 experiment: quality_overall, a 0–9 composite of three IELTS-adapted rubric dimensions graded by a validated LLM pipeline (Cohen's κ = 0.85 against human grading), modeled with prompt fixed effects and effort covariates. The contrast reached significance; no standardized effect size was printed.

"AI draft increases essay quality significantly over No AI and other AI support conditions."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Writing Skills — outcome: instruction changes it

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