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Better by You, better than Me? ChatGPT-3 as writing assistance in students’ essays.

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Bašić, Željana, Banovac, Ana, Kružić, Ivana, Jerković, Ivan·2023·Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

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Aim: To compare students' essay writing performance with or without employing ChatGPT-3 as a writing assistant tool.Materials and methods: Eighteen students participated in the study (nine in control and nine in the experimental group that used ChatGPT-3). We scored essay elements with grades (A-D) and corresponding numerical values (4-1). We compared essay scores to students' GPTs, writing time, authenticity, and content similarity. Results: Average grade was C for both groups; for control (2.39 ± 0.71) and for experimental (2.00 ± 0.73). None of the predictors affected essay scores: group (P = 0.184), writing duration (P = 0.669), module (P = 0.388), and GPA (P = 0.532). The text unauthenticity was slightly higher in the experimental group (11.87% ±13.45 to 9.96% ± 9.81%), but the similarity among essays was generally low in the overall sample (the Jaccard similarity index ranging from 0 to 0.054). In the experimental group, AI classifier recognized more potential AI-generated texts. Conclusions: This study found no evidence that using GPT as a writing tool improves essay quality since the control group outperformed the experimental group in most parameters.

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Authors
Bašić, Ž., Banovac, A., Kružić, I., & Jerković, I.
Affiliations
University of Split (HR)
Corresponding author
Banovac, Ana
Venue
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Published
2023-02-09
Volume
10
Issue
1
ISSN
2055-1045 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4388000629
Cited by
189
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27
Citations by year
2026: 37 · 2025: 55 · 2024: 67 · 2023: 30
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44.36
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journal article
Language
en
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  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Social Sciences › Education › Academic integrity and plagiarism
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
Keywords
ChatGPT-3.5, AI-assisted writing, student essay writing, academic writing, AI-generated text detection, textual authenticity, essay quality, writing performance, large language models

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