Nearly four in five Chinese HSS students perceived academic performance gains from GenAI, which the authors caution may reflect assessment limitations¶

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q2 i? 79.45% of surveyed students reported improved or significantly improved academic performance, but the authors argue gains may reflect surface-level outputs that current HSS assessment cannot distinguish from genuine learning. → Lei Fan and Fangxue Liu 2026

Evidence¶

Lei Fan and Fangxue Liu 2026¶

Lei Fan and Fangxue Liu. (2026). The impact of generative artificial intelligence on academic development of Chinese students in humanities and social sciences. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24104 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.24104

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Survey result on perceived academic performance (Figure 2b): "20.87% of respondents reported a significant improvement and 58.58% an improvement"; only 17.81% reported no change and under 3% negative effects.

"20.87% of respondents reported a significant improvement and 58.58% an improvement, indicating that nearly four out of five students believed GenAI had enhanced their academic performance."

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