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Help-Seeking

◐ medium · created 2026-08-06 · updated 2026-08-06help-seeking, intelligent-tutoring, student-experience, metacognition, higher-ed, llm, generative-ai, ai-literacy, k-12, scaffolding

Help-Seeking — a key concept in AI in education research. Explored across 4 articles in this wiki.

Research themes include:

  • Alexandra Neagu, Jeffrey T. H. Wong, Marcus Messer, Rhodri Nelson, Peter B. Johnson (2026). Pluralistic Alignment Workshop @ ICML 2026
  • A three-semester, 999-student analysis of hint usage in a K-12 mathematics ITS finds that two simple, interpretable indicators—premature hint requests and superficial hint reading—are consistently associated with reduced learning gains, even after co
  • Recent work in Technology-Enhanced Learning and HumanComputer Interaction highlights the importance of transparency and trust calibration in AI-supported learning environments as they pose a risk of hallucinations. In this study, we investigate wheth

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