AI-section students framed the AI as a collaborative partner even when logs showed one-shot imperatives and rapid acceptance (Illusion of Dialogue)¶

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q2 i? Students discursively framed AI use as partnership, but logged behavior often showed transactional delegation with minimal negotiation, a discursive–behavioral mismatch the authors label Illusion of Dialogue. → Liu 2026

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Liu 2026¶

Liu, D., Fan, G., & Pan, L. (2026). Tool, tutor, or crutch?: A grounded theory of cognitive scaffolding and offloading in AI-assisted programming education. International Journal of STEM Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-025-00592-w

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Constructivist grounded-theory analysis of the AI-enabled section, triangulating dyadic interviews with IDE interaction logs. Interviews showed anthropomorphic partnership framing while logs showed "one-shot imperative prompts followed by rapid acceptance". A discrepant case (Hui) whose logs aligned with partnership language tempered the category.

"However, a systematic analysis of the interaction logs often showed one-shot imperative prompts followed by rapid acceptance, a pattern more consistent with transactional delegation than with negotiated co-construction."

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