Semantic similarity between human and AI discourse is highest in the Delegated Reasoning profile and significantly lower in Concerted Interpretation¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? CI students showed significantly lower semantic coupling with the AI than DR students (b = −0.076, SE = 0.015, p < .001), while DE did not differ significantly from DR (b = −0.013, SE = 0.014, p = .363). → Zhanxin Hao 2026

Evidence¶

Zhanxin Hao 2026¶

Zhanxin Hao, Xiaobo Liu, Jiaxin Fan, Yun Long, Jifan Yu, Wenli Chen, Yu Zhang. (2026). Unpacking Interaction Profiles and Strategies in Human-AI Collaborative Problem Solving: A Cognitive Distribution and Regulation Perspective. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21288 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2603.21288

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Linear mixed-effects model of cosine similarity between adjacent human and AI utterances (text-embedding-3-large embeddings; N = 959 turns, random intercept per student, DR as reference). The article reports "significantly lower semantic coupling" for CI versus DR and no significant DE-DR difference; coefficients are unstandardized.

"students in the CI group exhibited significantly lower semantic coupling with the AI compared to their counterparts in the DR group (b = −0.076, SE = 0.015, p < .001). However, there was no significant difference in semantic similarity between the DE group and the DR group (b = −0.013, SE = 0.014, p = .363)."

Discussion¶

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• The Concerted Interpretation group reported significantly higher self-regulation than Delegated Reasoning, with no profile differences in co-regulation or socially-shared regulation — related
• Cluster analysis of student-AI dialogue identifies three distinct collaboration profiles: Delegated Reasoning, Concerted Interpretation, and Delegated Elaboration — a broader claim this one bears on
• Epistemic network analysis shows metacognitive behaviors co-occur with invitation actions in DR and DE but with human-initiated reasoning and elaboration in CI — related
• Human and AI discourse differ functionally: students lead invitations, connection, and regulation moves, while AI leads reasoning, coordination, and agreement — related
• The Delegated Reasoning group significantly outperformed the Concerted Interpretation group on collaborative problem-solving task performance — related