Students’ voices on generative AI: perceptions, benefits, and challenges in higher education
Cecilia Ka Yuk ChanWenjie Hu
Analyzes empirical survey data from 399 university students to identify their actual uses, perceived learning benefits, and ethical concerns regarding generative AI, providing clear evidence for educators designing institutional integration policies.
- Paper: Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback, Long Ouyang et al. (2022). Provides the foundational technical methodology for instruction-aligned models like ChatGPT, illustrating the conversational and helpfulness characteristics that university students directly interact with and evaluate.
- Paper: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners, T. B. Brown et al. (2020). Introduces the few-shot learning and natural language generation capabilities of modern large language models that underpin the generative AI tools analyzed in the student perception study.
- Paper: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4, Sébastien Bubeck et al. (2023). Explores the broader multimodal, reasoning, and domain-specific capabilities and limitations of GPT-4, providing technical depth to the academic benefits and accuracy concerns voiced by students.
- Paper: GPT-4 Technical Report, OpenAI (2023). Details the performance benchmarks and safety evaluations of GPT-4 across academic exams, offering concrete data directly relevant to students' perceptions of academic support and ethical risks.
