CGScholar AI Helper: A Generative AI Writing and Learning Assistant

The project team will develop a new prototype component that integrates GenAI within CGScholar to offer formative and summative feedback to students based on their use of non-textual media such as images, audio, or video, while writing. At the end of Phase I, a pilot study will occur with 4 middle and high school classes, with approximately 80 students using the prototype to write 500-word essays. The team will examine whether the prototype functions as intended, whether students perceive that the GenAI provided timely, helpful, and accurate feedback during the writing process, what protocols and guardrails are required for the effective and safe application of GenAI in the teaching of writing, and whether educators find GenAI useful for writing instruction.