Student Feedback on the Effectiveness of ChatGPT for Essay Writing
Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper investigates the students’ perspectives on using ChatGPT for essay writing in English among third-grade grammar school students in Belgrade, Serbia. Twenty-two students participated in the study, initially writing an essay without ChatGPT’s assistance and then revising it with the tool’s help. After completing both essays, the students filled out a questionnaire designed to gather their perceptions of how ChatGPT helped improve their essay writing. The questionnaire was structured with a series of statements related to specific aspects of essay writing, such as essay organization, cohesion and coherence, argument presentation, vocabulary use, and grammatical accuracy. The students responded to these statements using a Likert scale, indicating their level of agreement or disagreement with each statement. The findings suggest that students perceived significant improvements in their essays when using ChatGPT. Notable improvements were reported in the organization of the essay, general introductory sentences, background information usage, topic sentence formulation, generating cohesive paragraphs, and providing arguments supporting their opinions. Additionally, students felt that ChatGPT helped them use better vocabulary and write grammatically correct sentences. Students showed dissatisfaction with ChatGPT when it comes to the text length management and providing personal opinions and opposing views. These results indicate that AI tools like ChatGPT can be valuable aids in educational settings, enhancing students’ writing skills and overall essay quality.
Author: Ljubojević, Danijela
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7024775433