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cs.CY2026

Who Decides in AI-Mediated Learning? The Agency Allocation Framework

Conrad Borchers, Olga Viberg, René F. Kizilcec

As AI-mediated learning systems increasingly shape how learners plan, make decisions, and progress through education, learner agency is becoming both more consequential and harder…

cs.AI2026

Physiological and Semantic Patterns in Medical Teams Using an Intelligent Tutoring System

Xiaoshan Huang, Conrad Borchers, Jiayi Zhang +1

Effective collaboration requires teams to manage complex cognitive and emotional states through Socially Shared Regulation of Learning (SSRL). Physiological synchrony (i.e., longit…

cs.CL2026

Understanding Teacher Revisions of Large Language Model-Generated Feedback

Conrad Borchers, Luiz Rodrigues, Newarney Torrezão da Costa +2

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly generate formative feedback for students, yet little is known about how teachers revise this feedback before it reaches learners. Teachers…

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.HC2026

Multimodal Analytics of Cybersecurity Crisis Preparation Exercises: What Predicts Success?

Conrad Borchers, Valdemar Švábenský, Sandesh K. Kafle +2

Instructional alignment, the match between intended cognition and enacted activity, is central to effective instruction but hard to operationalize at scale. We examine alignment in…

cs.CY2026

The Digital Divide in Generative AI: Evidence from Large Language Model Use in College Admissions Essays

Jinsook Lee, Conrad Borchers, AJ Alvero +2

Large language models (LLMs) have become popular writing tools among students and may expand access to high-quality feedback for students with less access to traditional writing su…

cs.CL2026

Large Language Models as Students Who Think Aloud: Overly Coherent, Verbose, and Confident

Conrad Borchers, Jill-Jênn Vie, Roger Azevedo

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in AI-based tutoring systems. Can they faithfully model novice reasoning and metacognitive judgments? Existing evaluations em…

cs.CY2026★ 1 cited

Fifteen Years of Learning Analytics Research: Topics, Trends, and Challenges

Valdemar Švábenský, Conrad Borchers, Elvin Fortuna +2

The learning analytics (LA) community has recently reached two important milestones: celebrating the 15th LAK conference and updating the 2011 definition of LA to reflect the 15 ye…

cs.CY2026

Measuring the Impact of Student Gaming Behaviors on Learner Modeling

Qinyi Liu, Lin Li, Valdemar Švábenský +2

The expansion of large-scale online education platforms has made vast amounts of student interaction data available for knowledge tracing (KT). KT models estimate students' concept…

cs.CY2024★ 3 cited

Does the Doer Effect Exist Beyond WEIRD Populations? Toward Analytics in Radio and Phone-Based Learning

Darren Butler, Conrad Borchers, Michael W. Asher +7

The Doer Effect states that completing more active learning activities, like practice questions, is more strongly related to positive learning outcomes than passive learning activi…

cs.LG2024★ 8 cited

Evaluating the Impact of Data Augmentation on Predictive Model Performance

Valdemar Švábenský, Conrad Borchers, Elizabeth B. Cloude +1

In supervised machine learning (SML) research, large training datasets are essential for valid results. However, obtaining primary data in learning analytics (LA) is challenging. D…