Canadian students were more likely than South Korean students to judge GenAI-assisted coding scenarios as unethical¶
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q2 i? Across eight scenarios, Canadian students rated the actor as having acted unethically more than Korean students (mean 2.6 vs 1.78 on a five-point Likert scale), with statistically significant differences on all but one scenario. → Brian Harrington 2025
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Brian Harrington 2025¶
Brian Harrington, Irina Zlotnikova, Gayathri Nadarajan, and Samuel Ekundayo. (2025). Did Alice Do Wrong? Cross-Cultural Differences in Student Perceptions of Generative AI Use in University Computing Education. ACM Trans. Comput. Educ. 26, 1, Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776558
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Scenario-based survey at two universities (262 CAN, 48 KOR respondents) comparing Likert judgments of eight GenAI coding scenarios. Canadian students were "much more likely to say that Alice acted unethically" (mean = 2.6) than Korean students (mean = 1.78); Mann–Whitney U tests showed significant differences on all prompts except Scenario 1 ethicality.
"Students at CAN were much more likely to say that Alice acted unethically (mean = 2.6 on five-point Likert scale) than students at KOR (mean = 1.78)"
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Related Claims¶
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- Canadian students were more likely than South Korean students to judge GenAI-assisted coding as against institutional rules, despite functionally identical policies — related
- Canadian and Korean students did not differ significantly in overall opinions about GenAI's impact on academic integrity and learning quality, and academic progress did not affect scenario judgments — related
- Students' perceptions of ethicality and of rule compliance were strongly and positively correlated, with rule ratings consistently higher than ethicality ratings — related
- Teachers with constructivist beliefs are more likely to integrate educational AI-based tools than teachers with transmissive orientations (reported from a South Korean teacher study) — related
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Canadian students were more likely than South Korean students to judge GenAI-assisted coding scenarios as unethical |
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Canadian students were more likely than South Korean students to judge GenAI-assisted coding scenarios as unethical |
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