High CT students significantly exceeded low CT students in task strategies, elaboration, and self-assessment during AICA interactions¶
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q2 i? Chi-square tests found significant differences favoring high CT students in task strategies (TS), elaboration (E), and self-assessment (SA), with no significant differences in IV, SE, CrT, SH, IE, or SS. → Shu Zhao 2026
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Shu Zhao 2026¶
Shu Zhao, Ziqi Wang, Tingting Chen, Chunchen Kang, Yu-Ju Lan. (2026). Exploring the effect of computational thinking levels on students' learning performance, cognition, and behavior when using AI coding assistants. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-026-10663-6
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Chi-square tests on frequencies of cognitive behaviors coded from reflection journals using an SRL scheme (Table 5 prints TS χ2 = 11.226, p =.001; E χ2 = 18.281, p =.000; SA χ2 = 7.239, p =.007). The article reports "Significant differences were observed in TS, E, and SA"; no effect sizes are printed.
"Significant differences were observed in TS, E, and SA indicating that high CT students outperformed low CT students. No significant differences were observed in IV, SE, CrT, SH, IE, and SS."
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Related Claims¶
- High and low CT groups showed comparable prior coding knowledge before the AICA intervention — related
- High CT students used the AICA for code understanding and debugging while low CT students used it for direct answer retrieval — related
- ENA revealed high CT students had significantly more coherent SRL cognitive networks spanning planning, execution, and self-reflection than low CT students — related
- High CT students significantly outperformed low CT students on the post-test after AICA-assisted coding instruction — related
- Behavioral trends across three tasks showed high CT students maintained stable independent coding while low CT students' AICA use fluctuated — related
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High CT students significantly exceeded low CT students in task strategies, elaboration, and self-assessment during AICA interactions |
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High CT students significantly exceeded low CT students in task strategies, elaboration, and self-assessment during AICA interactions |
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