Educational Research

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Resources on Generative AI in Education: Educational Research

Interested in learning more about using generative AI in educational research? See the resources below.

Supporting Qualitative Analysis with Large Language Models: Combining Codebook with GPT-3 for Deductive Coding - This paper shows that by combining GPT-3 with expert-drafted codebooks, the outcome achieved fair to substantial agreements with expert-coded results. The codebook prompt has this structure [Code/ Description/ Examples].
ATLAS.ti - ATLAS.ti is collaborating with OpenAI for AI-powered qualitative analysis.
StoryWizard - A platform harnessing the power of AI to create personalized and engaging stories. Researchers can use StoryWizard to explore how AI can be leveraged to enhance personalized and engaging storytelling experiences for different audiences.
A Child–AI Collaborative System to Support Children’s Creative Visual Storytelling - This co-creative system is designed to support visual storytelling for children aged 6-10 years through collaborative drawing between children and AI. This system reveals the affordances of generative AI to stimulate young children's creativity, imagination, and digital storytelling skills. This system also points out one way how researchers can integrate generative AI into educational settings to facilitate learning and storytelling.

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Deeper Dive

Do you want to learn more? Following are more in-depth resources on the topic of generative AI in educational research.

CollabCoder: A GPT-Powered Workflow for Collaborative Qualitative Analysis - A recent paper on a system design for Human-GPT collaboration for qualitative analysis.
Sentiment Analysis Using ChatGPT - An example of using ChatGPT for sentiment analysis.
The Impact of Different Types of Artificial Intelligence Activities on Young Children's Perceptions of Robots - This paper investigated preschool children’s learning and interactions with three AI concepts: knowledge-based systems, supervised machine learning, and generative AI, which sheds light on how educational researchers can introduce AI concepts, especially generative AI, to children in developmentally appropriate ways.
Envisioning Narrative Intelligence: A Creative Visual Storytelling Anthology - This paper helps researchers gain insights into the variations and themes of creative visual storytelling, and can inform the development of automatic story generation systems and criteria for evaluating narrative intelligence.