Students associate poor slide quality with AI as the source: perceived quality correlates negatively with AI-source guesses¶

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q2 i2 Across all segments there is a weak negative Spearman correlation between quality rating and human-vs-AI guess (ρ = -0.28, p < 0.01). → anchor-correlation

Evidence¶

anchor-correlation¶

Juho Leinonen, Lisa Zhang, and Arto Hellas. 2026. AI-Generated Slides: Are They Good? Can Students Tell?. In Proceedings of Western Canada Conference on Computing Education 2026 (WCCCE 2026). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13532 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.13532

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Correlational analysis of the in-class survey ratings (459 overall ratings across 22 segments); the article prints the correlation coefficient ρ = -0.28 (p < 0.01), described as "a weak, negative correlation", suggesting students associate poor quality with AI as the source.

"We also see a weak, negative correlation between perceived quality and guess on whether the slides were produced by AI or a human (-0.28, p <0.01)."

Discussion¶

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