ERIC Number: EJ1477797
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Publication Date: 2025-Jun
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The Role of Help-Seeking from ChatGPT in Digital Game-Based Learning
Ching-Huei Chen1; Victor Law2
Educational Technology Research and Development, v73 n3 p1703-1721 2025
This study explores the roles of students' help-seeking profiles when seeking help from AI chatbots, specifically ChatGPT, in a digital game-based learning environment, "Summon of Magicrystal." The study involved 102 middle school students who played an online game with the provision of ChatGPT and sought help from ChatGPT while solving physics problems. The results revealed that students' help-seeking profiles, help-seeking threats, help-seeking avoidance, and instrumental help-seeking were positively correlated. Students' instrumental help-seeking profile has a positive effect on game performance/engagement, while students' avoidance help-seeking profile has a positive effect on the number of game attempts. The findings highlight the importance of students' help-seeking profiles when considering designing AI-assisted game-based learning environments to better support students' science learning.
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Game Based Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Technology Integration, Learning Processes, Correlation, Physics, Profiles
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1National Sun Yat-sen University, Center for Teacher Education & Institute of Education, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 2University of New Mexico, Program of Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences, Albuquerque, USA

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