3 papers
cs.CL2025
Instructional Goal-Aligned Question Generation for Student Evaluation in Virtual Lab Settings: How Closely Do LLMs Actually Align?
R. Alexander Knipper, Indrani Dey, Souvika Sarkar +3
Virtual Labs offer valuable opportunities for hands-on, inquiry-based science learning, yet teachers often struggle to adapt them to fit their instructional goals. Third-party mate…
cs.CL2025
The Bias is in the Details: An Assessment of Cognitive Bias in LLMs
R. Alexander Knipper, Charles S. Knipper, Kaiqi Zhang +3
As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in real-world decision-making processes, it becomes crucial to examine the extent to which they exhibit cognitive biases.…
physics.ed-ph2024
SimPal: Towards a Meta-Conversational Framework to Understand Teacher's Instructional Goals for K-12 Physics
Effat Farhana, Souvika Sarkar, Ralph Knipper +4
Simulations are widely used to teach science in grade schools. These simulations are often augmented with a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) agent to provide real-time s…