3 papers
cs.AI2026
Rethinking Scaffolding in LLM Tutors: The Interactional Mismatch Between Benchmarks and Real-World Deployments
Alexandra Neagu, Jeffrey T. H. Wong, Marcus Messer +2
A central pedagogical value evaluated in AI tutor benchmarks is scaffolding: guiding students through graduated steps toward a solution. Alignment and evaluation methods for embedd…
cs.CY2026
Ed API: Towards a Shared API for Education Microservices
Maximillan Sölch, Alexandra Neagu, Marcus Messer +5
Learning at scale often requires domain-specific automation such as assessment and feedback. An organization locked in to a general learning platform without these specialist autom…
cs.HC2026
"How Do I ...?": Procedural Questions Predominate Student-LLM Chatbot Conversations
Alexandra Neagu, Marcus Messer, Peter Johnson +1
Providing scaffolding through educational chatbots built on Large Language Models (LLM) has potential risks and benefits that remain an open area of research. When students navigat…