Country context differentially predicts GenAI concerns: Qatari teachers report higher plagiarism concern and Indian teachers lower creativity concern than U.S. teachers¶

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Evidence · 2 studies · 2 associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2031: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Qatari teachers reported substantially higher plagiarism concern than U.S. teachers (B = .45, p < .001), while Indian teachers reported lower creativity concern (B = −.23, p < .05). → Xiu RL 2026 q3 i? Omnibus tests showed country dummies jointly significant for all three outcomes (e.g., plagiarism concern F(4, 1,145) = 6.05, p < .001). → Xiu RL 2026 (2)

Evidence¶

Xiu RL 2026¶

Xiu RL, Aguilar SJ, Macías AJ, Shikanova A, Al-Sulaiti R, Junjunia M and Jebril ST (2026) K-12 in-service teachers’ beliefs about generative AI in classrooms: insights from the United States, India, Qatar, Colombia, and the Philippines. Front. Educ. 11:1929017. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1929017

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Model 2 regression on plagiarism concern (N = 1,162). "Teachers in Qatar reported substantially higher plagiarism concern than U.S. teachers"; lower education level also predicted higher concern (B = −.13, p < .001). India's lower creativity concern (B = −.23, p < .05) came from Model 3.

"Teachers in Qatar reported substantially higher plagiarism concern than U.S. teachers [B = .45, 95% CI (.25, .65), p < .001], the largest country effect across all three models."

Xiu RL 2026 (2)¶

Xiu RL, Aguilar SJ, Macías AJ, Shikanova A, Al-Sulaiti R, Junjunia M and Jebril ST (2026) K-12 in-service teachers’ beliefs about generative AI in classrooms: insights from the United States, India, Qatar, Colombia, and the Philippines. Front. Educ. 11:1929017. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1929017

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Omnibus tests of country fixed effects across all three regression models, reported in Section 3.5. All three tests were significant, supporting H3 partially: "country context predicted both concern outcomes" with contrasts limited to Qatar and India.

"omnibus tests of the four country dummy coefficients were significant for Positive AI Impact Beliefs, F (4, 1,183) = 6.25, p < .001; Plagiarism Concern, F (4, 1,145) = 6.05, p < .001; and Creativity Concern, F (4, 1,166) = 3.39, p = .009."

Discussion¶

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