TeachingCoach: A Fine-Tuned Scaffolding Chatbot for Instructional Guidance to Instructors

Created: 2026-05-11 | Tags: llmteacher-rolehigher-edscaffoldingfaculty-development

Authors: Isabel Molnar, Peiyu Li, Si Chen, Sugana Chawla, James Lang, Ronald Metoyer, Ting Hua, Nitesh V. Chawla Year: 2026 Venue: arXiv (cs.AI)

Summary

Pedagogically grounded chatbot for instructor PD. Data-centric pipeline extracts pedagogical rules + synthetic dialogue fine-tuning. Outperforms GPT-4o mini on clarity/reflectiveness/responsiveness.

Key Contributions

Pedagogically grounded chatbot for instructor PD. Data-centric pipeline extracts pedagogical rules + synthetic dialogue fine-tuning. Outperforms GPT-4o mini on clarity/reflectiveness/responsiveness.

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Citation

Isabel Molnar et al. (2026). TeachingCoach: A Fine-Tuned Scaffolding Chatbot for Instructional Guidance to Instructors. arXiv:2603.18189. cs.AI.