Harnessing Large Language Models to Enhance Self-Regulated Learning via Formative Feedback

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Autori principali: Steinert, Steffen, Avila, Karina E., Ruzika, Stefan, Kuhn, Jochen, Küchemann, Stefan
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author Steinert, Steffen
Avila, Karina E.
Ruzika, Stefan
Kuhn, Jochen
Küchemann, Stefan
author_facet Steinert, Steffen
Avila, Karina E.
Ruzika, Stefan
Kuhn, Jochen
Küchemann, Stefan
contents Effectively supporting students in mastering all facets of self-regulated learning is a central aim of teachers and educational researchers. Prior research could demonstrate that formative feedback is an effective way to support students during self-regulated learning (SRL). However, for formative feedback to be effective, it needs to be tailored to the learners, requiring information about their learning progress. In this work, we introduce LEAP, a novel platform that utilizes advanced large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, to provide formative feedback to students. LEAP empowers teachers with the ability to effectively pre-prompt and assign tasks to the LLM, thereby stimulating students' cognitive and metacognitive processes and promoting self-regulated learning. We demonstrate that a systematic prompt design based on theoretical principles can provide a wide range of types of scaffolds to students, including sense-making, elaboration, self-explanation, partial task-solution scaffolds, as well as metacognitive and motivational scaffolds. In this way, we emphasize the critical importance of synchronizing educational technological advances with empirical research and theoretical frameworks.
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spellingShingle Harnessing Large Language Models to Enhance Self-Regulated Learning via Formative Feedback
Steinert, Steffen
Avila, Karina E.
Ruzika, Stefan
Kuhn, Jochen
Küchemann, Stefan
Physics Education
Effectively supporting students in mastering all facets of self-regulated learning is a central aim of teachers and educational researchers. Prior research could demonstrate that formative feedback is an effective way to support students during self-regulated learning (SRL). However, for formative feedback to be effective, it needs to be tailored to the learners, requiring information about their learning progress. In this work, we introduce LEAP, a novel platform that utilizes advanced large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, to provide formative feedback to students. LEAP empowers teachers with the ability to effectively pre-prompt and assign tasks to the LLM, thereby stimulating students' cognitive and metacognitive processes and promoting self-regulated learning. We demonstrate that a systematic prompt design based on theoretical principles can provide a wide range of types of scaffolds to students, including sense-making, elaboration, self-explanation, partial task-solution scaffolds, as well as metacognitive and motivational scaffolds. In this way, we emphasize the critical importance of synchronizing educational technological advances with empirical research and theoretical frameworks.
title Harnessing Large Language Models to Enhance Self-Regulated Learning via Formative Feedback
topic Physics Education
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13984