How Students Develop Creative Skills and Critical Thinking with ChatGPT: Experimental Results

Mass access to AI-technologies like ChatGPT or other AI-assisted tools has significantly expanded the student's ability to search for and process vast amounts of information during the education process.Student use AI-generated texts to develop projects in the human sciences.It seems that application of synthetic content into student work is inevitable.This paper aims to study development of students' critical thinking and creative skills with application of ChatGPT.Haphazard delegation of the initiative to AI-based chatbots directly affects the development of these skills.To evaluate these effects an experimental approach has been applied.Sixteen students have participated in the experiment.There were two groups.Each group prepared weekly materials on a predetermined topic.The experimental group could use only AI-based chatbots.The control group could use any other resources, except chatbots.Students had written an initial essay and final abstracts for the conference.After the experiment, students provided feedback about working with AI.The results showed that critical thinking parameters and creative skills have been comparatively underdeveloped in the experimental group.