3 papers
cs.AI2026
INSIDE the Student's Mind: Jointly Modeling Latent Reasoning and Action in LLM Student Simulators
Rose Niousha, Minwoo Kang, Narges Norouzi
Large Language Model (LLM)-based simulators often reproduce observable actions but fail to capture the underlying reasoning behind them. In education, where student simulation is i…
cs.CY2026
The Missing Evaluation Axis: What 10,000 Student Submissions Reveal About AI Tutor Effectiveness
Rose Niousha, Samantha Boatright Smith, Bita Akram +5
Current Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tutoring systems (AI tutors) are primarily evaluated based on the pedagogical quality of their feedback messages. While important, pedago…
cs.CY2025
ParaStudent: Generating and Evaluating Realistic Student Code by Teaching LLMs to Struggle
Mihran Miroyan, Rose Niousha, Joseph E. Gonzalez +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on programming tasks, but can they generate student-like code like real students - imperfect, iterative, and stylisticall…