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AI and the Sense of Learner Identity for Generation Z

2025· article· W4415923878 on OpenAlexaff
Stephen Murgatroyd

Bibliographic record

VenueREVISTA PARAGUAYA DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (REPED) · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGenerational Differences and Trends
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPersonaIdentity (music)CreativityTransactional leadershipExploratory researchHigher education

Abstract

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Generation Z seems both transactional and more of a consumer than an engaged, adaptive, resilient or exploratory learner. Their persona is strongly tied to their understanding that learning leads to jobs. Their use of AI and related technologies is strongly linked to this persona, and this is also their rationale for using AI for "cheating." Higher education is about more than consumption. It is about personal growth and development, adaptability, creativity and imagination. It is about what the Japanese call Ikigai. This paper explores the personas at play in higher education, the nature of Ikigai, and the changes that are needed to shift Generation Z to adopt a broader understanding of the purpose of their education and strengthen their Ikigai.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.008
Scholarly communication0.0090.006
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.352
Teacher spread0.331 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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