Mathdial: A dialogue tutoring dataset with rich pedagogical properties grounded in math reasoning problems

J Macina, N Daheim, SP Chowdhury, T Sinha… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
While automatic dialogue tutors hold great potential in making education personalized and
more accessible, research on such systems has been hampered by a lack of sufficiently …

Bridging the novice-expert gap via models of decision-making: A case study on remediating math mistakes

R Wang, Q Zhang, C Robinson, S Loeb… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Scaling high-quality tutoring remains a major challenge in education. Due to growing
demand, many platforms employ novice tutors who, unlike experienced educators, struggle …

Step-by-Step Remediation of Students' Mathematical Mistakes

RE Wang, Q Zhang, C Robinson, S Loeb… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Scaling high-quality tutoring is a major challenge in education. Because of the growing
demand, many platforms employ novice tutors who, unlike professional educators, struggle …

Code soliloquies for accurate calculations in large language models

S Sonkar, X Chen, M Le, N Liu, D Basu Mallick… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
High-quality conversational datasets are crucial for the successful development of Intelligent
Tutoring Systems (ITS) that utilize a Large Language Model (LLM) backend. Synthetic …

Strategize before teaching: A conversational tutoring system with pedagogy self-distillation

L Wang, M Sachan, X Zeng, KF Wong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.13496, 2023 - arxiv.org
Conversational tutoring systems (CTSs) aim to help students master educational material
with natural language interaction in the form of a dialog. CTSs have become a key pillar in …

CIMA: A large open access dialogue dataset for tutoring

K Stasaski, K Kao, MA Hearst - … on Innovative Use of NLP for …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
One-to-one tutoring is often an effective means to help students learn, and recent
experiments with neural conversation systems are promising. However, large open datasets …

Opportunities and challenges in neural dialog tutoring

J Macina, N Daheim, L Wang, T Sinha, M Kapur… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Designing dialog tutors has been challenging as it involves modeling the diverse and
complex pedagogical strategies employed by human tutors. Although there have been …

Is it a good move? Mining effective tutoring strategies from human–human tutorial dialogues

J Lin, S Singh, L Sha, W Tan, D Lang, D Gašević… - Future Generation …, 2022 - Elsevier
To construct dialogue-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) with sufficient pedagogical
expertise, a trendy research method is to mine large-scale data collected by existing …

Identifying effective moves in tutoring: On the refinement of dialogue act annotation schemes

AK Vail, KE Boyer - International conference on intelligent tutoring …, 2014 - Springer
The rich natural language dialogue that is exchanged between tutors and students has
inspired many successful lines of research on tutorial dialogue systems. Yet, today's tutorial …

Retrieval-augmented generation to improve math question-answering: Trade-offs between groundedness and human preference

Z Levonian, C Li, W Zhu, A Gade, O Henkel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
For middle-school math students, interactive question-answering (QA) with tutors is an
effective way to learn. The flexibility and emergent capabilities of generative large language …