Self-Regulated Reading with AI Support: An Eight-Week Study with Students

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09907v1
• Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:41:15 GMT
• Title: Self-Regulated Reading with AI Support: An Eight-Week Study with Students
• Abstract summary: We conducted an eight-week longitudinal study with 15 undergraduates who used AI to support assigned readings in a course.<n>We collected 838 prompts across 239 reading sessions and categorizing them into four cognitive themes.<n>Students showed natural cognitive progression from comprehension toward reasoning, but this progression was truncated.<n>We discuss design implications for AI reading systems that scaffold sustained cognitive engagement.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: College students increasingly use AI chatbots to support academic reading, yet we lack granular understanding of how these interactions shape their reading experience and cognitive engagement. We conducted an eight-week longitudinal study with 15 undergraduates who used AI to support assigned readings in a course. We collected 838 prompts across 239 reading sessions and developed a coding schema categorizing prompts into four cognitive themes: Decoding, Comprehension, Reasoning, and Metacognition. Comprehension prompts dominated (59.6%), with Reasoning (29.8%), Metacognition (8.5%), and Decoding (2.1%) less frequent. Most sessions (72%) contained exactly three prompts, the required minimum of the reading assignment. Within sessions, students showed natural cognitive progression from comprehension toward reasoning, but this progression was truncated. Across eight weeks, students' engagement patterns remained stable, with substantial individual differences persisting throughout. Qualitative analysis revealed an intention-behavior gap: students recognized that effective prompting required effort but rarely applied this knowledge, with efficiency emerging as the primary driver. Students also strategically triaged their engagement based on interest and academic pressures, exhibiting a novel pattern of reading through AI rather than with it: using AI-generated summaries as primary material to filter which sections merited deeper attention. We discuss design implications for AI reading systems that scaffold sustained cognitive engagement.

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