A small subset of question types accounts for the majority of student inquiries to AI, with Assertion the most frequent category in both CS2 sessions¶
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q2 i? Assertion prompts were the most frequent question category in both sessions (S1 = 86, S2 = 82), reflecting students' tendency to report issues or express uncertainty rather than formulate explicit questions. → Matin Amoozadeh and Amin Alipour 2026
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Matin Amoozadeh and Amin Alipour 2026¶
Matin Amoozadeh and Amin Alipour. (2026). Analysis of Types of Inquiries in Student-AI Interaction: A case study of two CS2 tasks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17919 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.17919
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Descriptive frequency analysis of 830 logged prompts (432 in Session 1, 398 in Session 2) classified into Graesser categories. The article reports Assertion was "the most frequent category in both sessions (S1 = 86, S2 = 82)". Higher-order categories such as Comparison and Enablement remained minimal.
"the most frequent category in both sessions (S1 = 86, S2 = 82), re- flecting students' tendency to report issues or express uncertainty rather than formulate explicit questions."
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A small subset of question types accounts for the majority of student inquiries to AI, with Assertion the most frequent category in both CS2 sessions |
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A small subset of question types accounts for the majority of student inquiries to AI, with Assertion the most frequent category in both CS2 sessions |
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