Lexington Student Research and Publication Collaborative (Poster 39)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Thursday 2:15pm
  In Invited Poster Session: Research Engagement and Development with Youth (READY) Program Invited Poster Session

Abstract

As high school student researchers, we asked the question: In what ways do pressures within high school communities influence students’ perspectives on justifying or rejecting the use of ChatGPT? While our current project incorporates a 2025 comparative analysis with 40 student interview participants, in 2023, we interviewed 24 secondary students and conducted a thematic discourse analysis under the intersectional lenses of social goods (Gee, 2014), Figured Worlds (Holland et al., 1998), and positioning theory (Holland et al., 1998; Ingram & Elliott, 2019). We found that participants did not interpret a binary accept-or-reject stance on ChatGPT; instead, the social goods of their Figured Worlds and surrounding pressures influenced the extent to which they positioned ChatGPT as a tool to gain agency.

Authors

• Alexa Muse, University of Oxford

• Aanya Kaveti, Lexington High School

• Angela Xie, Lexington High School

• Amal Balachundhar, Lexington High School

• Rocio Salgado Rodriguez, Lexington High School

• Cameron Mantha, Lexington High School

• Noe Voskuil, Lexington High School