Effects of ChatGPT use on undergraduate students’ creativity: a threat to creative thinking?

Concerns have arisen regarding the potential negative impact of long-term ChatGPT use on creative thinking. This study investigates these effects using a one-group, pretest–posttest design involving 31 undergraduates over a 10-week intervention period. Participants used ChatGPT to complete academic...

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Autores: Toma, Radu Bogdan, Yánez Pérez, Iraya
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Burgos (UBU)
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos (RIUBU)
OAI Identifier:oai:riubu.ubu.es:10259/10366
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10259/10366
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Artificial intelligence
ChatGPT
Creativity
Education
Largue language models
Tecnología educativa
Inteligencia artificial
Inteligencia artificial en la enseñanza
Educational technology
Artificial intelligence-Educational applications
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Sumario:Concerns have arisen regarding the potential negative impact of long-term ChatGPT use on creative thinking. This study investigates these effects using a one-group, pretest–posttest design involving 31 undergraduates over a 10-week intervention period. Participants used ChatGPT to complete academic assignments focused on designing teaching units on bacterial growth, chronic disease, and the human body. Creativity was assessed using the CREA-Creative Intelligence test, a valid and reliable instrument. Data were analyzed using both frequentist and Bayesian methods. The results showed that 25% of participants experienced decreased creativity, 21.43% remained unchanged, and 53.57% showed improvement. Overall, the study found no evidence that ChatGPT negatively impacts creative thinking.