Students’ prompt self-efficacy increased significantly after the scaffolded GenAI course (t = 3.729, p < .001)¶

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q2 i? Paired-sample t-test on 71 students with complete pre- and post-test data showed post-test prompt self-efficacy (M = 3.991, SD = 0.589) was significantly higher than pre-test (M = 3.757, SD = 0.654). → Deliang Wang and Cunling Bian 2026

Evidence¶

Deliang Wang and Cunling Bian 2026¶

Deliang Wang and Cunling Bian. (2026). Scaffolding Critical Engagement with GenAI: Transforming Ethnic Minority Preparatory Students’ Collaborative Discourse in Prompt Engineering Tasks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28630 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.28630

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Paired-samples t-test on an eight-item 5-point prompt self-efficacy scale administered before and after the three-week course; complete data were available for 71 of 78 students. The article reports the significant increase but prints no effect size, so no magnitude is asserted.

"The paired-samplest-test (t= 3.729,p<.001) indicates that students’ perceived prompt self-efficacy was significantly higher after the intervention than before it, suggesting a meaningful improvement in their confidence in crafting prompts."

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