3 papers
cs.AI2026
INSIDE the Student's Mind: Jointly Modeling Latent Reasoning and Action in LLM Student Simulators
Rose Niousha, Minwoo Kang, Narges Norouzi
Large Language Model (LLM)-based simulators often reproduce observable actions but fail to capture the underlying reasoning behind them. In education, where student simulation is i…
cs.CY2026
The Missing Evaluation Axis: What 10,000 Student Submissions Reveal About AI Tutor Effectiveness
Rose Niousha, Samantha Boatright Smith, Bita Akram +5
Current Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tutoring systems (AI tutors) are primarily evaluated based on the pedagogical quality of their feedback messages. While important, pedago…
cs.CY2025
ParaStudent: Closing the Sim2Real Gap in User Simulators for AI Tutor Evaluation
Rose Niousha, Mihran Miroyan, Abigail O'Neill +4
Evaluating Artificial Intelligence (AI) tutor feedback before deployment requires anticipating student engagement, typically assessed through real interaction data. We introduce Pa…