3 papers
physics.ed-ph2026
A bottom-up taxonomy of student discourse with a Socratic AI physics tutor
Syed Furqan Abbas Hashmi, N. Sanjay Rebello
Large language model (LLM) tutors are being deployed in introductory physics courses at a scale that produces transcript corpora far larger than traditional qualitative coding can…
physics.ed-ph2025
Examining Student and AI Generated Personalized Analogies in Introductory Physics
Amogh Sirnoorkar, Winter Allen, Syed Furqan Abbas Hashmi +1
Comparing abstract concepts (such as electric circuits) with familiar ideas (plumbing systems) through analogies is central to practice and communication of physics. Contemporary r…
physics.ed-ph2025
Analyzing Undergraduate Problem-Solving in Physics Through Interaction With an AI Chatbot
Syed Furqan Abbas Hashmi, N. Sanjay Rebello
Providing individualized scaffolding for physics problem solving at scale remains an instructional challenge. We investigate (1) students' perceptions of a Socratic Artificial Inte…