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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…
Sandpiper: Orchestrated AI-Annotation for Educational Discourse at Scale
Daryl Hedley, Doug Pietrzak, Jorge Dias +9
Digital educational environments are expanding toward complex AI and human discourse, providing researchers with an abundance of data that offers deep insights into learning and in…
The Path to Conversational AI Tutors: Integrating Tutoring Best Practices and Targeted Technologies to Produce Scalable AI Agents
Kirk Vanacore, Ryan S. Baker, Avery H. Closser +1
The emergence of generative AI has accelerated the development of conversational tutoring systems that interact with students through natural language dialogue. Unlike prior intell…
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…
Student Engagement in AI Assisted Complex Problem Solving: A Pilot Study of Human AI Rubik's Cube Collaboration
Kirk Vanacore, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Forest Agostinelli +3
Games and puzzles play important pedagogical roles in STEM learning. New AI algorithms that can solve complex problems offer opportunities for scaffolded instruction in puzzle solv…