Prompting technique distribution shifts in teams, driven by students reporting no technique at all¶

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q2 i2 The prompting-technique distribution differed significantly between contexts (Cramer's V = 0.324, medium effect); no-technique reports rose 22.4 percentage points to 29.7%. → Sehrish Basir Nizamani 2026

Evidence¶

Sehrish Basir Nizamani 2026¶

Sehrish Basir Nizamani, Zannah Ziew, Saad Nizamani, and Khyati Goyal. (2026). Less Deliberate in Teams: Student LLM Use Across Individual and Collaborative Work. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30860 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.30860

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Multi-select survey measure of prompting techniques across individual and team assignments; the quote reports the printed effect size "V= 0.324, medium effect". On team assignments the proportion reporting no prompting technique rose to 29.7% while copy-paste debugging fell to 6.5%.

"The distribution of prompting techniques shifted substantially between individual and team contexts (𝜒 2(5)= 82.12,𝑝<. 0001,𝑉= 0.324, medium effect). On individual assignments, students most commonly employed iterative refinement (27.9%), single direct questions (28.7%), and copy-paste debugging (17.7%), with only 7.3% reporting no technique."

Discussion¶

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