self-regulated learning

Enhancing School Students' Self-Regulated Learning through Generative AI Support: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Tim Fütterer, Lisa Bardach, Jochen Kuhn, Stefan Daniel Keller, Peter Gerjets

Educational Psychology Review

A preregistered three-arm trial with 371 German students in Grades 7–9 found limited advantages for theory-informed GPT-4o prompts over standard ChatGPT, highlighting that meaningful engagement and implementation quality matter more than adding prompts alone.