Integration of ChatGPT in mathematical story-focused 5E lesson planning: Teachers and pre-service teachers' interactions with ChatGPT

Integration of ChatGPT in mathematical story-focused 5E lesson planning: Teachers and pre-service teachers' interactions with ChatGPT

연구 분야: Software Development

학회: Education and Information Technologies

ChatGPT's advanced text generation capability has significant potential for the development of innovative and effective pedagogical strategies in mathematics teaching. The integration of ChatGPT into the mathematical story-focused 5E lesson plan preparation process is a concrete reflection of this potential. The success of this integration depends primarily on how mathematics teachers and pre-service teachers interact with and perceive ChatGPT. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the interactions of three mathematics teachers and three pre-service teachers with ChatGPT during the process of preparing mathematical story-focused 5E lesson plans. The research aims to evaluate the qualities of the prompts created by the participants in this process, the benefits provided by ChatGPT, and the participants' metaphorical perceptions of ChatGPT. Open-ended questionnaires and focus group interviews were conducted, and participants' prompt archives were also analyzed. The data analysis incorporated a meticulously conducted inter-rater reliability assessment between a human expert and ChatGPT. The results revealed that the participants used ChatGPT differently, with particularly large variations in the number of prompts. Some participants created a large number of prompts, while others worked with much fewer prompts, but it was observed that creating a large number of prompts did not always translate into benefits. Factors like originality, time management, self-efficacy, and ChatGPT's mathematical performance were identified as limiting factors. Perceptions of ChatGPT varied, with some participants viewing it as an assistant and others associating it with cheating. Based on these findings, recommendations for effectively using ChatGPT are provided.