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Darja Felberg is a doctoral student at the Center for Education and Digital Transformation since September 2025. Her doctoral thesis focuses on students’ usage patterns when using large language models. She places particular emphasis on the influence of learners’ social and linguistic backgrounds.

Previously, she worked as a research assistant at the Center for Research on Education and School Development at TU Dortmund University. She studied English, Russian, and educational sciences.

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Doctoral thesis: Large language models as amplifiers of educational inequality? A mixed-methods analysis of secondary students' learning related use of AI-based chatbots

This dissertation project examines how secondary school students use chatbots such as Chat-GPT. The focus is on how individual characteristics such as socioeconomic status and language background influence usage. Using a combination of a systematic review, qualitative interviews, the analysis of chat logs, and an intervention study, the project aims to investigate whether students from different backgrounds follow certain usage patterns and how the use of AI language models amplifies or reduces existing educational inequalities. The project contributes to understanding the implications of this technology for digital literacy development and educational equity.

1.9.2025–31.8.2030, Supervisors: Leonie Sibley (PHZH) und Barbara Getto (PHZH)

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