7 papers
Guidelines for Designing AI Technologies to Support Adult Learning
Jennifer M. Reddig, Glen R. Smith, Sanaz Ahmadzadeh Siyahrood +16
AI-powered educational technologies have demonstrated measurable benefits for learners, but their design and evaluation have largely centered on K-12 contexts. As a result, many AI…
Teaching Spell Checkers to Teach: Pedagogical Program Synthesis for Interactive Learning
Momin N. Siddiqui, Vincent Cavez, Sahana Rangasrinivasan +4
Spelling taught through memorization often fails many learners, particularly children with language-based learning disorders who struggle with the phonological skills necessary to…
DraftMarks: Enhancing Transparency in Human-AI Co-Writing Through Interactive Skeuomorphic Process Traces
Momin N. Siddiqui, Nikki Nasseri, Adam Coscia +2
As generative AI becomes part of everyday writing, questions of transparency and productive human effort are increasingly important. Educators, reviewers, and readers want to under…
AI in the Writing Process: How Purposeful AI Support Fosters Student Writing
Momin N. Siddiqui, Roy Pea, Hari Subramonyam
The ubiquity of technologies like ChatGPT has raised concerns about their impact on student writing, particularly regarding reduced learner agency and superficial engagement with c…
TutorGym: A Testbed for Evaluating AI Agents as Tutors and Students
Daniel Weitekamp, Momin N. Siddiqui, Christopher J. MacLellan
Recent improvements in large language model (LLM) performance on academic benchmarks, such as MATH and GSM8K, have emboldened their use as standalone tutors and as simulations of h…
Intelligent Tutors for Adult Learners: An Analysis of Needs and Challenges
Adit Gupta, Momin Siddiqui, Glen Smith +2
This work examines the sociotechnical factors that influence the adoption and usage of intelligent tutoring systems in self-directed learning contexts, focusing specifically on adu…