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9 papers

cs.CY2026

Cross-Subject Predictive Validity for Learning Outcomes of Delayed Start Behavior

Jordan Gutterman, Ashish Gurung, Lee Branstetter +2

Behavioral detectors provide valuable insights into learner motivation and self-regulation. Among these, delayed start, a new session-level detector, has shown great promise as a v…

cs.CY2026

Improving Hybrid Human-AI Tutoring by Differentiating Human Tutor Roles Based on Student Needs

Ashish Gurung, Ge Gao, Jordan Gutterman +6

Hybrid human-AI tutoring, where technology and humans jointly facilitate student learning, can be more beneficial than AI-only tutoring. However, preliminary evidence suggests that…

cs.CY2026

Coasting Through Class: Learning Opportunity Loss from Practice Avoidance During Individual Seatwork

Ashish Gurung, Jordan Gutterman, Danielle R. Thomas +3

Measures of disengagement provide insights into unproductive use of learning opportunities. Although measures of active disengagement, such as gaming the system and mind-wandering,…

cs.CL2026

Representation Learning to Study Temporal Dynamics in Tutorial Scaffolding

Conrad Borchers, Jiayi Zhang, Ashish Gurung

Adaptive scaffolding enhances learning, yet the field lacks robust methods for measuring it within authentic tutoring dialogue. This gap has become more pressing with the rise of r…

cs.CY2026

Sticky Help, Bounded Effects: Session-by-Session Analytics of Teacher Interventions in K-12 Classrooms

Qiao Jin, Conrad Borchers, Ashish Gurung +6

Teachers' in-the-moment support is a limited resource in technology-supported classrooms, and teachers must decide whom to help and when during ongoing student work. However, less…

cs.CY2026

Brief but Impactful: How Human Tutoring Interactions Shape Engagement in Online Learning

Conrad Borchers, Ashish Gurung, Qinyi Liu +3

Learning analytics can guide human tutors to efficiently address motivational barriers to learning that AI systems struggle to support. Students become more engaged when they recei…