TokiChat is launching this month a structuring scientific collaboration with the Nantes Education Research Center (CREN – UR 2661), a recognized laboratory in educational sciences. This initiative is part of our commitment to develop evidence-based educational AI, supported by research and designed for the real-world uses of teachers and students.
The partnership is led by a multidisciplinary team: Patrice Bourdon (University Professor), Cendrine Mercier (Senior Lecturer), Élisabeth Baranger-Lumineau, Emmanuel Desmontils, Mathilde Miguet, Laëtitia Pierrot, Cécile Lacôte-Coquereau, Valérie Renault, as well as a collective of associated researchers.
The work focuses on a central issue: better understanding what students learn when they interact with AI, and how these exchanges can become reliable indicators of artificial intelligence literacy — that is, the ability to understand, question, and critically and autonomously mobilize AI.
This partnership is not in its infancy: the first observations have already begun thanks to the involvement of two Master MEEF Economics-Management students, Marie Olivier and Alexandra Vinel-Tricault, co-supervised by CREN and INSPE. They are currently carrying out the first field work on the activity of students and teachers in their interactions with TokiChat. Their surveys constitute the first stone of the data corpus that will feed the modeling of progression indicators.
Over the coming months, the collaboration will be structured around several stages: – scientific formalization of an AI literacy competency framework; – qualitative and quantitative analysis of the first collected interactions; – modeling of observable indicators; – progressive integration of these indicators into TokiChat in the form of pedagogical visualizations and reflective feedback.
By building on this partnership, TokiChat is moving towards its goal: to offer AI that is truly useful in education, sovereign, measurable, and designed based on robust scientific knowledge. The work already undertaken demonstrates active momentum and a strong connection between research, practice, and technology.