Verification behavior lagged rising AI use: minimal or conditional verification more than doubled (5 to 12) over the semester¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Re-solving to check AI outputs rose (25 to 30) and external cross-referencing grew, but responses describing only minimal or conditional verification more than doubled (5 to 12), so increased use did not uniformly increase checking. → Shuang Geng 2026

Evidence¶

Shuang Geng 2026¶

Shuang Geng, Helen Lallos-Harrell, Jiya Ashar, Thomas J. McKenna, Annwesa Dasgupta, Caleb Farny, and Emma Lejeune. (2026). Structured AI Demonstrations and Student LLM Use in Engineering Mechanics: Study Design and Preliminary Results. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28710 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.28710

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Coded free-text verification responses from the pre/post survey, machine-coded with the adjudicated multi-model pipeline. The article reports "responses describing only minimal or conditional verification more than doubled (5 to 12)".

"At the same time, responses describing only minimal or conditional verification more than doubled (5 to 12), so increased use did not uniformly translate into increased checking."

Discussion¶

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