aceDeveloping a generative AI chatbot to support students' higher-order thinking in STEM education
Higher-order thinking is a key component of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) reasoning and supports students' ability to reflect on their ideas, make connections, and generalize across contexts. We report a new approach to the use of generative AI in STEM education, in which we are developing a chatbot that aims to engage students in higher-order thinking, rather than giving instructional content. We describe a proof of concept test of whether interaction with our generative artificial intell…
In a pilot with 33 fifth- and sixth-grade students, a prompting chatbot drew out higher-order thinking talk about ratio strategies, and students' talk rose with the chatbot's own.
The study is described as a proof of concept with only 33 students, so it shows that talk can be elicited, not that learning improves or that results generalize.
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- Peer-reviewedJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education2026-10-14
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