TeachTune: Reviewing Pedagogical Agents Against Diverse Student Profiles with Simulated Students

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Hauptverfasser: Jin, Hyoungwook, Yoo, Minju, Park, Jeongeon, Lee, Yokyung, Wang, Xu, Kim, Juho
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author Jin, Hyoungwook
Yoo, Minju
Park, Jeongeon
Lee, Yokyung
Wang, Xu
Kim, Juho
author_facet Jin, Hyoungwook
Yoo, Minju
Park, Jeongeon
Lee, Yokyung
Wang, Xu
Kim, Juho
contents Large language models (LLMs) can empower teachers to build pedagogical conversational agents (PCAs) customized for their students. As students have different prior knowledge and motivation levels, teachers must review the adaptivity of their PCAs to diverse students. Existing chatbot reviewing methods (e.g., direct chat and benchmarks) are either manually intensive for multiple iterations or limited to testing only single-turn interactions. We present TeachTune, where teachers can create simulated students and review PCAs by observing automated chats between PCAs and simulated students. Our technical pipeline instructs an LLM-based student to simulate prescribed knowledge levels and traits, helping teachers explore diverse conversation patterns. Our pipeline could produce simulated students whose behaviors correlate highly to their input knowledge and motivation levels within 5% and 10% accuracy gaps. Thirty science teachers designed PCAs in a between-subjects study, and using TeachTune resulted in a lower task load and higher student profile coverage over a baseline.
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spellingShingle TeachTune: Reviewing Pedagogical Agents Against Diverse Student Profiles with Simulated Students
Jin, Hyoungwook
Yoo, Minju
Park, Jeongeon
Lee, Yokyung
Wang, Xu
Kim, Juho
Human-Computer Interaction
Large language models (LLMs) can empower teachers to build pedagogical conversational agents (PCAs) customized for their students. As students have different prior knowledge and motivation levels, teachers must review the adaptivity of their PCAs to diverse students. Existing chatbot reviewing methods (e.g., direct chat and benchmarks) are either manually intensive for multiple iterations or limited to testing only single-turn interactions. We present TeachTune, where teachers can create simulated students and review PCAs by observing automated chats between PCAs and simulated students. Our technical pipeline instructs an LLM-based student to simulate prescribed knowledge levels and traits, helping teachers explore diverse conversation patterns. Our pipeline could produce simulated students whose behaviors correlate highly to their input knowledge and motivation levels within 5% and 10% accuracy gaps. Thirty science teachers designed PCAs in a between-subjects study, and using TeachTune resulted in a lower task load and higher student profile coverage over a baseline.
title TeachTune: Reviewing Pedagogical Agents Against Diverse Student Profiles with Simulated Students
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04078