Adaptive Scaffolding Needs Contingency: An AI Tutor That Escalates and Fades on What the Learner Does

Xinmeng Hou, Yuxuan Weng, Chin Hsien Yeh +5

Coding assistants raise task performance, but learners plan and monitor less. Giving less away, the usual fix, conflates two things: how much work a system carries (cognitive load)…