Supporting Teachers’ Professional Development With Generative AI: The Effects on Higher Order Thinking and Self-Efficacy

Generative AI has emerged as a noteworthy milestone and a consequential advancement in the annals of major disciplines within the domains of human science and technology. This study aims to explore the effects of generative AI-assisted pre-service teaching skills training on pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy and higher order thinking. The participants of this study were 215 pre-service mathematics, science, and computer teachers from a university in China. Firstly, a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was implemented for an experimental group (teaching skills training by generative AI) and a control group (teaching skills training by traditional methods) by investigating the teacher self-efficacy and…