"Everyone's using it, but no one is allowed to talk about it": College Students' Experiences Navigating the Higher Education Environment in a Generative AI World
Information School, University of Washington
How they used Delve
Researchers at the University of Washington Information School used Delve to organize quotes and themes from semi-structured interviews with 23 college students about navigating higher education in a generative-AI world, as the consolidation step of a reflexive thematic analysis.
“Subsequently, two researchers individually divided and re-examined all transcripts, extracting quotes, refining and integrating themes through frequent discussions. Next, one researcher organized participants' quotes and themes using a qualitative analysis research tool Delvetool [21] and then compiled into a comprehensive document.”
- Field
- human-computer interaction; generative AI in higher education
- Data
- Semi-structured interviews with 23 college students about generative-AI use in their academic work
- Approach
- Reflexive thematic analysis; two researchers coded and refined themes through discussion, one researcher then organised quotes and themes in Delve across two iterations
- Data types
- Interviews
Citation
Yue Fu, Yifan Lin, Jessica Wang, Sarah Tran, Alexis Hiniker (2026). "Everyone's using it, but no one is allowed to talk about it": College Students' Experiences Navigating the Higher Education Environment in a Generative AI World. arXiv.