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Jul 2026
AI-supported teaching and student engagement: the mediating role of perceived competence in vocational education
The findings suggest that competence-related experiences may represent an important psychological pathway linking AI-supported teaching and student engagement in structured vocational education contexts and the non-significant role of perceived autonomy indicates that motivational processes in AI-supported learning may vary across instructional settings and should be interpreted in relation to contextual and pedagogical conditions.
Lin-Lin Yin, Yiwu Tang, Xiao-Yu Ou
· Frontiers in Psychology · 0 citations