AI takeover of metacognitive monitoring may foster illusion of competence (untested conjecture)¶
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q1 i? When AI automates the diagnostic and evaluative loops of learning, students lose opportunities to calibrate their understanding, which can foster an illusion of competence and weaken autonomous self-regulation. → Hoyun Cho 2026
Evidence¶
Hoyun Cho 2026¶
Hoyun Cho. (2026). Relocating the Locus of Generation: The AI-GLM Framework for Generative Learning in AI-Mediated Mathematics Education. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10210-y
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Theoretical argument from the cross-cutting theme synthesis concerning self-explaining, self-testing, and summarizing. The article explicitly notes this proposed displacement of metacognitive monitoring "remains a theoretical conjecture that has not yet been directly tested in mathematics learning"; no empirical evidence is offered for it.
"When AI takes over these functions, automating the diagnostic and evaluative loops of learning, students lose the opportunity to calibrate their understanding, which can foster an illusion of competence and weaken autonomous self-regulation."
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AI takeover of metacognitive monitoring may foster illusion of competence (untested conjecture) |
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AI takeover of metacognitive monitoring may foster illusion of competence (untested conjecture) |
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