🏷️ socratic-method

> **Synthesis:** Tufino & Damiani (2026) explore where a language-based AI can stand within an inquiry activity without displacing embodied experience, using a Master's-level physics education course …

2026-08-13 · physics-education, pedagogical-agent, generative-ai, higher-ed, professional-training

> **Synthesis:** Sirnoorkar & Mamidpalliwar (2026) investigate the association between introductory physics students' preferences for chatbot behavior and their epistemological beliefs, using a custom…

2026-08-13 · physics-education, chatbot, ai-literacy, higher-ed, student-experience

> **Synthesis:** Large language model (LLM) tutors are being deployed in introductory physics courses at a scale that produces transcript corpora far larger than traditional qualitative coding can abs…

2026-08-10 · ai-tutoring, physics-education, discourse-analysis, llm, higher-ed

> **Critical thinking** — the ability to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information — is both a skill that AI tools can help develop and a competency that students must apply when using AI. In AI i…

2026-08-09 · ai-education, generative-ai, higher-ed, ai-literacy, scaffolding

> **Physics Education** — the study of how students learn physics and how to teach it more effectively, spanning Socratic AI tutoring, computational thinking assessment, student trust and AI adoption …

2026-08-09 · physics-education, stem-education, ai-tutoring, generative-ai, higher-ed

> **Scaffolding** — structured support that helps learners accomplish tasks they cannot yet complete independently, with support fading as competence grows. In AI in education, scaffolding is the prim…

2026-08-09 · zone-of-proximal-development, over-reliance, cognitive-load-theory, feedback-loop, ai-literacy

> **Synthesis:** A custom Socratic AI chatbot deployed in a large-enrollment introductory mechanics course with 150 first-year STEM majors, demonstrating that AI-driven Socratic dialogue can foster ex…

2026-07-29 · physics-education, generative-ai, intelligent-tutoring, socratic-questioning, computational-thinking

> **The Multimodal Interference Effect** describes a systemic accuracy drop when LLMs encounter image-rich STEM problems: from ~96% on text-only physics problems to ~74% on multimodal ones. A simple t…

2026-07-29 · intelligent-tutoring, multimodal, stem-education, llm, ai-tutoring

Codify (also referred to as "AI Tutor") is a web-based [[intelligent-tutoring]] platform for programming education that integrates conversational AI, adaptive assessment, and learning analytics. It le…

2026-05-17 · generative-ai, higher-ed, intelligent-tutoring, llm, programming-its