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…
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…
cs.CL2024
How Well Can You Articulate that Idea? Insights from Automated Formative Assessment
Mahsa Sheikhi Karizaki, Dana Gnesdilow, Sadhana Puntambekar +1
Automated methods are becoming increasingly integrated into studies of formative feedback on students' science explanation writing. Most of this work, however, addresses students'…