Female students reported higher learning agency than male students after controlling for GenAI literacy and year of study¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Gender was significantly associated with learning agency, with female students reporting higher levels than male students. → Yang J 2026

Evidence¶

Yang J 2026¶

Yang J, Liu X, Zhao W and Wang T (2026). GenAI literacy and GenAI-assisted self-regulated learning behaviors: the roles of learning agency and challenge emotions. Front. Psychol. 17:1902668. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1902668

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Secondary finding from the mediation model's covariates in the survey of 434 undergraduates; the article reports the gender difference as significant but prints no effect size for it, so no magnitude is reported here.

"Female students reported higher levels of learning agency than male students after controlling for GenAI literacy and year of study."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Gender — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause

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