ERIC Number: EJ1488235
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Publication Date: 2025
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ISSN: ISSN-1560-4292
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Available Date: 2024-07-08
How Can I Get It Right? Using GPT to Rephrase Incorrect Trainee Responses
Jionghao Lin1; Zifei Han1; Danielle R. Thomas1; Ashish Gurung1; Shivang Gupta1; Vincent Aleven1; Kenneth R. Koedinger1
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, v35 n2 p482-508 2025
One-on-one tutoring is widely acknowledged as an effective instructional method, conditioned on qualified tutors. However, the high demand for qualified tutors remains a challenge, often necessitating the training of novice tutors (i.e., trainees) to ensure effective tutoring. Research suggests that providing timely explanatory feedback can facilitate the training process for trainees. However, it presents challenges due to the time-consuming nature of assessing trainee performance by human experts. Inspired by the recent advancements of large language models (LLMs), our study employed the GPT-4 model to build an explanatory feedback system. This system identifies trainees' responses in binary form (i.e., correct/incorrect) and automatically provides template-based feedback with responses appropriately rephrased by the GPT-4 model. We conducted our study using the responses of 383 trainees from three training lessons ("Giving Effective Praise, Reacting to Errors," and "Determining What Students Know"). Our findings indicate that: 1) using a few-shot approach, the GPT-4 model effectively identifies correct/incorrect trainees' responses from three training lessons with an average F1 score of 0.84 and AUC score of 0.85; and 2) using the few-shot approach, the GPT-4 model adeptly rephrases incorrect trainees' responses into desired responses, achieving performance comparable to that of human experts.
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Tutor Training, Trainees, Feedback (Response), Natural Language Processing, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Error Patterns, Error Correction
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Author Affiliations: 1Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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