7 papers
A multi-agent AI classroom based on dual-process reasoning hazards: a pilot with prospective physics teachers
Eugenio Tufino
Responding productively, in real time, to the reasoning students actually produce is among the most difficult and slowest to acquire of the skills physics teachers develop, and pro…
Embodied inquiry with AI as facilitator: an exploratory case study
Eugenio Tufino, Paola Damiani
Generative AI is entering science education at a time when the embodied education community is asking what such systems cannot do. Rather than asking whether AI can understand the…
Performance and failure modes of AI chatbots on a novel concept inventory on relativity in classical mechanics
Eugenio Tufino, Caterina Giovanzana, Andrea Zamboni +2
AI chatbots are increasingly used by students as study tools in physics, raising practical questions about their reliability on conceptual tasks. Existing evaluations of large lang…
Demystifying the oracle: A "20 Questions" game to promote AI ethics and literacy
Eugenio Tufino
As Generative AI becomes a key component in physics education, a significant ethical challenge has emerged: the tendency of students to anthropomorphize Large Language Models (LLMs…
Creating a customisable Socratic AI physics tutor
Eugenio Tufino, Bor Gregorcic
This paper explores role engineering as an effective paradigm for customizing Large Language Models (LLMs) into specialized AI tutors for physics education. We demonstrate this met…
NotebookLM as a Socratic physics tutor: Design and preliminary observations of a RAG-based tool
Eugenio Tufino
This study explores NotebookLM, a Google Gemini - powered AI platform that integrates Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as a Socratic tutor for physics education. In this implem…