Teachers envisioned chatbots as extending teacher capacity and availability by providing additional access to support and redistributing planning workload¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Teachers perceived chatbots as extending instructional support availability when they could not assist every student, and as reducing planning and feedback workload. → Riahi 2026

Evidence¶

Riahi 2026¶

Riahi, B., Ozturk, D., Guth, A., Li, J., Singh, D. P., Tian, X., Chiu, J., Lytle, N., Barnes, T., & Cateté, V. (2026). Will It Teach as Intended? How Teachers Configure Educational AI Chatbots. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29993 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.29993

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Focus-group thematic analysis identified two complementary ways teachers envisioned augmentation: providing students additional access to support (e.g., "a little mini teacher while I work with the kids that are really lost") and redistributing planning, feedback, and instructional workload.

"teachers perceived the chatbot as extending the availability of instructional support when they could not provide individual assistance to every student."

Discussion¶

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