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Research Summary: Cognitive competences in human–AI qualitative analysis: exploring the MIXAI workflow through reflective portfolios
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- Frontiers in Education
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- Aziz Shuaib Ausi
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- 3 October 2026
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The integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into educational research is altering traditional practices, particularly in areas like literature reviews and qualitative analysis. This shift introduces a trade-off between increased operational efficiency and a potential degradation of higher-order cognitive competencies among researchers. The study highlights the necessity of actively exercising abstract, systemic, and analytical thinking when using GenAI, specifically through the MIXAI workflow, to maintain intellectual agency.
Why it matters
The expanding adoption of GenAI across various domains necessitates a critical understanding of its impact on core human intellectual capabilities. Safeguarding and fostering higher-order cognitive skills in a GenAI-augmented environment is crucial for maintaining analytical depth and strategic thinking within any organization or research endeavor.
Key insights
- GenAI is transforming methodologies in educational research, including literature reviews and qualitative analysis.
- The adoption of GenAI presents a tension between enhanced operational efficiency and the risk of undermining higher-order cognitive competencies.
- Effective integration of GenAI requires deliberate application of cognitive competencies to safeguard intellectual agency.
- Monitoring the exercise of these crucial cognitive competencies during GenAI use is an underexplored area.
- The study investigates how researchers engage abstract, systemic, and analytical thinking within the MIXAI workflow for GenAI-supported literature reviews.
Source
Frontiers in Education — https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2026.1921424
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