Color me confounded: A critical analysis of media comparisons on ChatGPT in education

2026/06/24 by Alyssa P. Lawson, Amédee Marchand Martella, Amedee Marchand Martella +3 · 2 voices
Medicine · Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education #AI in Service Interactions #Misinformation and Its Impacts

paper · doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105701

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• Remember that meta-study of ChatGPT effects on learning that got retracted by SpringerNature recently? Here's a new paper showing why it and others like it can't be trusted due to serious issues with [bsky, 78 points, 4 comments]
• This study is a must-read because it explains both (a) why the current "is ChatGPT better for learning than X" literature is flawed (e.g., conflating medium and instructional method) and (b) how to do [bsky, 5 points, 0 comments]