Students’ Perceptions of Study Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Efficiency: Effects of Voice Assistant Use

The emergence of new technologies changes how students’ study and learn. This project investigated relationships between voice assistants and students’ study efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency. A questionnaire was designed to probe students’ self-assessed study practices. A total of 50 students responded. The results confirm significant differences between students that use voice assistants and those that do not. Study-efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency were positively connected to the use of voice assistants. The results also revealed that voice assistants influenced issues related to personal study but not activities relating to other people such as group work and interaction with the teacher. Future work could investigate if curiosity and endorsement of new technologies in context of study is an indicator of study efficacy, effectiveness, efficiency, and ambition, while a lack of interest in such tools are connected to a lower interest in their own study process.