At Koç University, researchers have quietly answered a question that precedes all the grand debates about artificial intelligence in education: not whether students use AI, but whether they believe in their own capacity to do so. By adapting and validating a self-efficacy scale into Turkish, Associate Professors Semerci Şahin and Güney have given educators a mirror — one that reflects not technical competence alone, but the emotional and psychological terrain students must cross to truly inhabit an AI-integrated world. The tool arrives at a moment when universities have been faster to deploy A