Teacher or Artificial Intelligence? The Effect of Decision-Making Agent on Junior High School Students' Decision Acceptance: A Moderated Mediation Model.

This raises important questions about how students perceive and accept outcomes from non-human agents.

Results showed that students reported significantly higher decision acceptance and perceived fairness for teacher-made decisions than for artificial intelligence-generated decisions.

Perceived fairness partially mediated the relationship between the decision-making agent and decision acceptance.

Explanatory feedback positively moderated only the path from the decision-making agent to perceived fairness, with no significant moderating effect on the direct link between the decision-making agent and decision acceptance.