Do Tutors Learn from Equity Training and Can Generative AI Assess It?

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Main Authors: Thomas, Danielle R., Borchers, Conrad, Kakarla, Sanjit, Lin, Jionghao, Bhushan, Shambhavi, Guo, Boyuan, Gatz, Erin, Koedinger, Kenneth R.
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author Thomas, Danielle R.
Borchers, Conrad
Kakarla, Sanjit
Lin, Jionghao
Bhushan, Shambhavi
Guo, Boyuan
Gatz, Erin
Koedinger, Kenneth R.
author_facet Thomas, Danielle R.
Borchers, Conrad
Kakarla, Sanjit
Lin, Jionghao
Bhushan, Shambhavi
Guo, Boyuan
Gatz, Erin
Koedinger, Kenneth R.
contents Equity is a core concern of learning analytics. However, applications that teach and assess equity skills, particularly at scale are lacking, often due to barriers in evaluating language. Advances in generative AI via large language models (LLMs) are being used in a wide range of applications, with this present work assessing its use in the equity domain. We evaluate tutor performance within an online lesson on enhancing tutors' skills when responding to students in potentially inequitable situations. We apply a mixed-method approach to analyze the performance of 81 undergraduate remote tutors. We find marginally significant learning gains with increases in tutors' self-reported confidence in their knowledge in responding to middle school students experiencing possible inequities from pretest to posttest. Both GPT-4o and GPT-4-turbo demonstrate proficiency in assessing tutors ability to predict and explain the best approach. Balancing performance, efficiency, and cost, we determine that few-shot learning using GPT-4o is the preferred model. This work makes available a dataset of lesson log data, tutor responses, rubrics for human annotation, and generative AI prompts. Future work involves leveling the difficulty among scenarios and enhancing LLM prompts for large-scale grading and assessment.
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spellingShingle Do Tutors Learn from Equity Training and Can Generative AI Assess It?
Thomas, Danielle R.
Borchers, Conrad
Kakarla, Sanjit
Lin, Jionghao
Bhushan, Shambhavi
Guo, Boyuan
Gatz, Erin
Koedinger, Kenneth R.
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Equity is a core concern of learning analytics. However, applications that teach and assess equity skills, particularly at scale are lacking, often due to barriers in evaluating language. Advances in generative AI via large language models (LLMs) are being used in a wide range of applications, with this present work assessing its use in the equity domain. We evaluate tutor performance within an online lesson on enhancing tutors' skills when responding to students in potentially inequitable situations. We apply a mixed-method approach to analyze the performance of 81 undergraduate remote tutors. We find marginally significant learning gains with increases in tutors' self-reported confidence in their knowledge in responding to middle school students experiencing possible inequities from pretest to posttest. Both GPT-4o and GPT-4-turbo demonstrate proficiency in assessing tutors ability to predict and explain the best approach. Balancing performance, efficiency, and cost, we determine that few-shot learning using GPT-4o is the preferred model. This work makes available a dataset of lesson log data, tutor responses, rubrics for human annotation, and generative AI prompts. Future work involves leveling the difficulty among scenarios and enhancing LLM prompts for large-scale grading and assessment.
title Do Tutors Learn from Equity Training and Can Generative AI Assess It?
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11255