Does ChatGPT Enhance Student Learning? A Meta-analysis (Deng, et al., 2025)<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nAll of these statements, however, are ‘bent’ and are not necessarily true.<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nWhy? Watch the video below.<\/span><\/p>\nTL:DR?<\/span><\/p>\n\u2022 It’s too early to conduct an AI meta-analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2022 Effect size is actually 0.25, with no statistical significance.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2022 Authors did not include papers that show ChatGPT caused harm.<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nThus:<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n\u2022 Not all research is created equally.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2022 Not all data are created equal.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2022 Knowledge takes time.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2022 Lying with data is super easy.<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nI’m sharing this because many folks disregard reading research papers altogether and will only hear the headline. Others will only read abstracts. Others will not recognize that the published paper’s research was essentially bad.<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nSources matter.<\/span><\/p>\nLegitimate sources matter.<\/span><\/p>\nResearch methodology matters.<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nIt’s a tough world to navigate, instructional designers.<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\nLet’s be careful out there. \ud83d\udc6e\u2642\ufe0f <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n