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Muhammad Yusril Yusup
Department of Physics Education, Universitas Pendidikan Mandalika, Mataram, INDONESIA
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Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Using ChatGPT to Solve Routine Mechanics of Motion Problems Muhammad Roil Bilad; Irham Azmi; Muhammad Yusril Yusup; Habibi Habibi; Hisbulloh Als Mustofa
International Journal of Ethnoscience and Technology in Education Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026): March
Publisher : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

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This study analyzes university students’ difficulties in using ChatGPT to solve routine mechanics of motion problems by mapping challenges across the problem-solving cycle and explaining how these difficulties emerge during student–AI interactions. A sequential explanatory mixed-methods design was employed. In the quantitative phase, 70 Physics Education and Science Education undergraduates who had completed Basic Physics or Mechanics and had used ChatGPT for learning completed a 24-item Likert questionnaire covering six dimensions: problem representation, prompt formulation, understanding solution steps, evaluation and verification, integration into one’s own solution, and self-regulation/technical constraints. Descriptive statistics, ANOVA with post-hoc tests, and correlation analyses were conducted. The overall difficulty level was moderate (M ≈ 3.22), with 61.4% in the moderate category and 18.6% in the high category. Evaluation and verification emerged as the most critical difficulty (M ≈ 3.69; 45.7% high). Significant differences were found by semester and frequency of ChatGPT use, but not by study program; early-semester and rare users reported higher difficulty, especially in verification. Correlations indicated a chain linking prompting, understanding, and verification (e.g., D3–D4 r = 0.62). In the qualitative phase, interviews and reflections with nine students (high/moderate/low difficulty) showed that incomplete problem representation and reactive prompt revision led to superficial understanding and premature trust in AI outputs, with limited unit, sign, and plausibility checks. The findings highlight verification as the main bottleneck and support instructional designs that foreground modeling, evaluative routines, and metacognitive regulation in AI-supported physics learning.
Co-Authors Habibi Habibi Hisbulloh Als Mustofa Irham Azmi Muhammad Roil Bilad