12 papers
Redact or Keep? A Fully Local AI Cascade for Educational Dialogue De-Identification
Haocheng Zhang, Zhuqian Zhou, Kirk Vanacore +2
Educational dialogue is a valuable but sensitive resource for research: the same transcripts that capture authentic learning often capture personally identifiable information (PII)…
A Causal Framework for Estimating Heterogeneous Effects of On-Demand Tutoring
Kirk Vanacore, Danielle R Thomas, Digory Smith +3
This paper introduces a scalable causal inference framework for estimating the immediate, session-level effects of on-demand human tutoring embedded within adaptive learning system…
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…
Teachers' Perceived Benefits and Risks of AI Across Fifty-Five Countries: An Audit of LLM Alignment and Steerability
Yan Tao, Olga Viberg, Deepak Varuvel Dennison +2
Teachers' trust in artificial intelligence (AI) in education depends on how they balance its perceived benefits and risks. Yet global discussions about scaling AI in education rely…
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…
Million Tutoring Moves (MTM): An Open Multimodal Dataset for the Science of Tutoring
René Kizilcec, Kirk Vanacore, Zhuqian Zhou +8
We introduce the Million Tutoring Moves (MTM) project, an open dataset initiative aimed at advancing the science of tutoring through large-scale, reusable, and multimodal interacti…