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The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) has increased significantly with users frequently asking questions to chatbots. In the time when information is readily accessible, it is crucial to stimulate and preserve human cognitive abilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jamshid Mozafari , Florian Gerhold , Adam Jatowt

This paper investigates personalization in the field of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS). We hypothesize that personalization in the way questions are asked improves student learning outcomes. Previous work on dialogue-based ITS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Sabina Elkins , Robert Belfer , Ekaterina Kochmar , Iulian Serban , Jackie C. K. Cheung

Past research has defined a general process for the data-driven redesign of educational technologies and has shown that in carefully-selected instances, this process can help make systems more effective. In the current work, we test the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Qianru Lyu , Conrad Borchers , Meng Xia , Karen Xiao , Paulo F. Carvalho , Kenneth R. Koedinger , Vincent Aleven

We explore creating automated, personalized feedback in an intelligent tutoring system (ITS). Our goal is to pinpoint correct and incorrect concepts in student answers in order to achieve better student learning gains. Although automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Matt Grenander , Robert Belfer , Ekaterina Kochmar , Iulian V. Serban , François St-Hilaire , Jackie C. K. Cheung

Knowledge Tracing (KT) aims to determine whether students will respond correctly to the next question, which is a crucial task in intelligent tutoring systems (ITS). In educational KT scenarios, transductive ID-based methods often face…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Lingyue Fu , Hao Guan , Kounianhua Du , Jianghao Lin , Wei Xia , Weinan Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Yasheng Wang , Yong Yu

Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) that imitate human tutors and aim to provide immediate and customized instructions or feedback to learners have shown their effectiveness in education. With the emergence of generative artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhengyuan Liu , Stella Xin Yin , Carolyn Lee , Nancy F. Chen

This tutorial addresses the challenge of incorporating large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, in a data analytics class. It details several new in-class and out-of-class teaching techniques enabled by AI. For example, instructors…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Robert L. Bray

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to the development of AI-powered tutoring systems that provide interactive support via dialogue. To enable these tutoring systems to provide personalized support, it is essential to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shuyan Huang , Alexander Scarlatos , Jaewook Lee , Andrew Lan

The growing adoption of generative AI in education highlights the need to integrate established pedagogical principles into AI-assisted learning environments. This study investigates the potential of metacognitive theory to inform…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Tung Phung , Heeryung Choi , Mengyan Wu , Adish Singla , Christopher Brooks

Our research is a step toward ascertaining the need for personalization, in XAI, and we do so in the context of investigating the value of explanations of AI-driven hints and feedback are useful in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Cristina Conati , Oswald Barral , Vanessa Putnam , Lea Rieger

We consider the problem of iterative machine teaching, where a teacher sequentially provides examples based on the status of a learner under a discrete input space (i.e., a pool of finite samples), which greatly limits the teacher's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zeju Qiu , Weiyang Liu , Tim Z. Xiao , Zhen Liu , Umang Bhatt , Yucen Luo , Adrian Weller , Bernhard Schölkopf

Recent work exploring the capabilities of pre-trained large language models (LLMs) has demonstrated their ability to act as general pattern machines by completing complex token sequences representing a wide array of tasks, including…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Seyed Parsa Neshaei , Richard Lee Davis , Adam Hazimeh , Bojan Lazarevski , Pierre Dillenbourg , Tanja Käser

AI-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) have significant potential to transform teaching and learning. As efforts continue to design, develop, and integrate ITS into educational contexts, mixed results about their effectiveness have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Meriem Zerkouk , Miloud Mihoubi , Belkacem Chikhaoui

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks and domains, with data playing a central role in enabling these advances. Despite this success, the preparation and effective utilization of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hao Liang , Zhengyang Zhao , Zhaoyang Han , Meiyi Qiang , Xiaochen Ma , Bohan Zeng , Qifeng Cai , Zhiyu Li , Linpeng Tang , Weinan E , Wentao Zhang

The integration of AI in education offers significant potential to enhance learning efficiency. Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Llama, allow students to query a wide range of topics, providing unprecedented…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhaoxing Li , Vahid Yazdanpanah , Jindi Wang , Wen Gu , Lei Shi , Alexandra I. Cristea , Sarah Kiden , Sebastian Stein

Computer-supported learning is an increasingly important form of study since it allows for independent learning and individualized instruction. In this paper, we discuss a novel approach to developing an intelligent tutoring system for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-23 Serge Autexier , Dominik Dietrich , Marvin Schiller

We introduce Directional Stimulus Prompting, a novel framework for guiding black-box large language models (LLMs) toward specific desired outputs. Instead of directly adjusting LLMs, our method employs a small tunable policy model (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Zekun Li , Baolin Peng , Pengcheng He , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao , Xifeng Yan

Artificial Intelligence is a central topic in the computer science curriculum. From the year 2011 a project-based learning methodology based on computer games has been designed and implemented into the intelligence artificial course at the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Clemente Rubio-Manzano , Tomas Lermanda Senoceain

Domain experts should provide relevant domain knowledge to an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) so that it can guide a learner during problemsolving learning activities. However, for many ill-defined domains, the domain knowledge is hard to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-01-30 P. Fournier-Viger , R. Nkambou , E. Mephu Nguifo

Large language models (LLMs) hold great promise for educational applications, particularly in intelligent tutoring systems. However, effective tutoring requires alignment with pedagogical strategies - something current LLMs lack without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Kseniia Petukhova , Ekaterina Kochmar