In elementary book talk, students spent significantly more time interacting with a fixed-role AI peer than with their homeroom teacher in both grades¶
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q2 i? Students spent significantly more time on average interacting with the AI than with their human teacher, for Grade 4 (t(11)=2.58, p=.026) and Grade 5 (t(6)=3.97, p=.007). → Liao 2026
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Liao 2026¶
Liao, C.-Y. (2026). Beyond a single role: Justifying a role-adaptive framework for ai companions through a comparative study in elementary book talk. Education and Information Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-026-13958-6
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Within-subjects quasi-experiment with 19 elementary students (12 Grade 4, 7 Grade 5), each completing two AI-led and two teacher-led sessions. Paired-samples t-tests on student-level means showed longer AI sessions: "t(11) = 2.58, p =.026" for Grade 4 and "t(6) = 3.97, p =.007" for Grade 5. No effect size printed.
"We found that students spent significantly more time, on average, interacting with the AI than with their human teacher. This was true for both Grade 4 students ( t(11) = 2.58, p =.026) and was even more pronounced for Grade 5 students (t(6) = 3.97, p =.007)."
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Related Claims¶
- Despite longer AI-led sessions, the proportion of student-generated dialogue was markedly and significantly lower with the AI than with the teacher in both grades — related
- For Grade 4 students, the human teacher elicited significantly more utterances than the AI peer in every 4F reflection category, most pronouncedly for Future-oriented talk — related
- For Grade 5 students the AI peer elicited more factual statements but far fewer Feelings utterances than the teacher, with no significant differences in Findings or Future — related
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In elementary book talk, students spent significantly more time interacting with a fixed-role AI peer than with their homeroom teacher in both grades |
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In elementary book talk, students spent significantly more time interacting with a fixed-role AI peer than with their homeroom teacher in both grades |
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