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20242026
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15 papers

cs.CY2026

AI-Driven Assessment of Human Tutors: Linking Training Performance to Real-Life Practice

Danielle R. Thomas, Marie Cynthia Abijuru Kamikazi, Clara Brandt +2

There exist numerous tutor training platforms. However, few provide AI-driven training and evaluation for human tutors based on real-life performance. We present an AI-driven syste…

cs.LG2026

From Heuristics to Analytics: Forecasting Effort and Progress in Online Learning

Eric S. Qiu, Danielle R. Thomas, Boyuan Guo +2

Sustained effort is essential for realizing the benefits of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), yet many learners disengage or underuse available practice time. We introduce engage…

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.HC2026

Does the TalkMoves Codebook Generalize to One-on-One Tutoring and Multimodal Interaction?

Corina Luca Focsan, Marie Cynthia Abijuru Kamikazi, Tamisha Thompson +5

Accountable Talk theory has been widely adopted to analyze classroom discourse and is increasingly used to annotate tutoring interactions. In particular, the TalkMoves codebook, gr…

cs.CY2026

Modernizing Ground Truth: Four Shifts Toward Improving Reliability and Validity in AI in Education

Danielle R. Thomas, Conrad Borchers, Kirk P. Vanacore +2

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is now widespread in education, yet the efficacy of GenAI systems remains constrained by the quality and interpretation of the labeled da…