Document Type : Original Research Paper
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Department of Education Sciences, Peyame Noor university, Tehran Iran
Abstract
Background and Objectives: The applications of artificial intelligence in education (AIED) is emerging, and the focus of research on identifying these opportunities determines the future directions of education in order to benefit from fair education and equal opportunity globally. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to identify the applications of AIED from the point of view of the activists in this field and to examine its impact on improving the quality of learning from the point of view of teachers as well.
Methods: This was applied research with a mixed-methods design (qualitative-quantitative) of sequential transformation type with two approaches of content analysis and descriptive survey. To identify the applications of AI from a semi-structured interview with 13 subject experts who were purposefully selected by snowball sampling with the selection criteria of theoretical data saturation and to check the effectiveness of these applications, 81 first and second secondary school teachers of the city. Lande, who were selected randomly based on the sample size Morgan’s determination table, responded to the researcher-made questionnaire with 46 items. The authenticity of the interviews and the content validity of the questionnaire were confirmed by 4 subject experts and the reliability of the questionnaire was measured via Cronbach's alpha (0.94). The data of the qualitative section were analyzed in MAXQDA by the Grounded Theory method of Strauss and Corbin with the interpretive paradigm of Burrill and Morgan, and the data of the quantitative section were analyzed in SPSS26 with descriptive statistics, Friedman test and t-test.
Findings: The findings of the qualitative section included 4 selected codes, 21 central codes and 101 open codes, which include the applications of AIED with 8 central codes, the benefits of using AI with 6 central codes, the challenges of using AI with 5 central codes andtThe basic principles of using AI with 1 core code. The results of Friedman's test showed that "communicating with experts and external resources and increasing interactions at the global level, designing and presenting practical, attractive, effective and appropriate content based on the needs of students, organizing the conditions to improve classroom management and reducing the repetitive tasks of teachers" to the titles of the first to third priority applications in the field of AI and the components of "freeing up teachers' time and reducing their repetitive tasks, fighting discrimination and promoting social justice, the ability to change the social development of students" were ranked in the last three. Also, the average of all components was higher than the hypothetical average (3.5) and showed the effectiveness of all components in increasing the quality of learning. In addition, the results of the t-test showed that all the components were effective in increasing the quality of learning among the learners and it is important from the teachers' point of view because the t-value obtained in all the components was higher than 1.96.
Conclusion: In this research, in addition to identifying the applications of AIED, all the advantages, principles, challenges and concerns considering the applications of AIED were identified and the extent of the impact of the applications of AI on increasing the quality of students' learning was investigated. The results of the qualitative part showed that subject experts and activists in this field considered the most important applications of AI in increasing the accuracy of evaluations and personalization of education and believed that if they were used properly, the benefits of these applications could be used and the challenges would be minimized. The results of the quantitative section also showed that from the teachers' point of view, in the applications of personalizing education and improving classroom management, it had a greater impact on the teaching-learning process of students and its further improvement.
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