Students who engaged more meaningfully with the GenAI tended to have more sustained interest than control students (exploratory)¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2026 · checked against its sources 2026-10-22 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

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This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q2 i? Exploratory analyses indicated that students who engaged more meaningfully with the GenAI tended to have more sustained interest than those in the control group. → Tim Fütterer 2026

Evidence¶

Tim Fütterer 2026¶

Tim Fütterer, Lisa Bardach, Jochen Kuhn, Stefan Daniel Keller, Peter Gerjets. (2026). Enhancing School Students’ Self-Regulated Learning through Generative AI Support: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10133-8

q2 · i? · causal · r?

Exploratory analysis of engagement with the GPT-4o-powered chatbots during the four learning sessions. "students who engaged more meaningfully with the GenAI tended to have more sustained interest than those in the control group"; the hedged, exploratory finding prints no effect size.

"Exploratory analyses indicated that students who engaged more meaningfully with the GenAI tended to have more sustained interest than those in the control group."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Interest — outcome: instruction changes it
Motivation — outcome: instruction changes it

Curiosity-modulated tutoring produces roughly 2.4× more conversational turns than baseline under fixed time budgets — related

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`title`	`Students who engaged more meaningfully with the GenAI tended to have more sustained interest than control students (exploratory)`
`description`	`Students who engaged more meaningfully with the GenAI tended to have more sustained interest than control students (exploratory)`
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