Debating the Future: Appropriate Use of Generative AI in Educational Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Division C members (and colleagues!) are invited to this participatory session that is designed to afford a collaborative reckoning with the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into scholarship and knowledge production in our field. The aim of the session is to reconcile how, where, and under what conditions AI could or should be included in our work as researchers who hold a communal aim to build knowledge about the psychological processes involved in learning.

A team of contributors will offer a primer on the architecture of human cognition and artificial intelligence, and their contemplations on potential contributions and/or pernicious threats that follow when GenAI tools are included in scholarly activities including ideation and proposal of research review of the literature, analysis of data (both qualitative and quantitative), and more. A facilitated discussion will follow, with an aim to give voice to the Division’s sentiment and make progress towards norms."

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction

Chairs

• Matthew L. Bernacki, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Alyssa Emery, Iowa State University

• Helenrose Fives, Montclair State University

• Jeff A. Greene, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Participants

• Ha Nguyen, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Candace A. Walkington, Southern Methodist University

• Stephen J. Aguilar, University of Southern California

Session Organizer

• DeLeon Gray, North Carolina State University