Interaction traces cannot establish answerability or justificatory dispossession because StudyChat does not elicit reconstruction and defense of reasoning¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2029: tool and model accuracy changes quickly

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q1 i? The present analysis cannot establish answerability or identify individual cases of justificatory dispossession, because the interaction record may never require the student to explain or defend the reasoning embodied in the final work. → Jorge Fábrega 2026

Evidence¶

Jorge Fábrega 2026¶

Jorge Fábrega. (2026). Same Performance, Different Process: Epistemic Ownership in AI-Mediated Education. Preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02731 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2610.02731

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The article's stated evidentiary limit on its own analysis: interaction records can show whether students direct, incorporate, and judge contributions, but "StudyChat does not systematically elicit that capacity" for reconstructing and defending reasoning. This is the authors' interpretive statement, not a tested result.

"Answerability requires evidence that the learner can reconstruct and defend the reasoning embodied in the resulting work. StudyChat does not systematically elicit that capacity."

Discussion¶

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