arXiv:2608. 03206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) power educational applications from tutoring to essay scoring, but each is a point solution to a single task, and only recently have these point solutions been integrated into agents operating over a learning management system (LMS).
arXiv:2609.01591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI tutors are most useful when they adapt to each student's strengths, weaknesses, and preferred guidance, but evidence about which guidance works for...
arXiv:2606. 15349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standardized examinations are typically treated as uniform syllabus coverage problems.
arXiv:2606. 06546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating large language models (LLMs) for education requires measuring how models teach, not only what they know.
arXiv:2606. 20138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs can personalize education, although current static-prompt tutoring systems struggle to adapt to diverse academic disciplines.
arXiv:2609.00940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Solving problems through repeated attempts is a sequential modeling task: at each step, the solver receives feedback and decides how to revise their so...
arXiv:2607. 01247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-ended mathematics exams are valuable because they assess reasoning, proof construction, algorithmic thinking, and communication of intermediate steps.
The paper introduces the Grounded Integration Measure (GIM), a benchmark of 820 expert‑authored problems designed to test models on tasks that integrate multiple cognitive operations such as constraint satisfaction, state tracking, epistemic vigilance, and audience calibration. GIM emphasizes realistic, broadly accessible knowledge rather than specialized expertise, and uses a judge‑aware 2‑parameter logistic IRT model to produce robust ability estimates across 53 model‑thinking‑level configurations. The authors provide a comprehensive leaderboard of 22 models and 47 test configurations, and conduct an extensive study on how test‑time compute affects model capability, finding that configuration choices like thinking budget and quantization can be as influential as model selection itself. whyItMatters":"By focusing on integration of multiple cognitive domains, GIM offers a more realistic assessment of model reasoning capabilities than benchmarks that either overemphasize memorization or abstract reasoning alone."
SMRC is a new method that aligns large language models with student reasoning for mathematical error correction. It treats student reasoning as a multi‑step decision problem and uses Monte Carlo Tree Search to find optimal correction paths, while a breadth‑first search guided by the model generates reward signals that are back‑propagated to supervise intermediate steps. The authors also introduce the MSEB benchmark of 158 high‑school math problems and a dual evaluation protocol focusing on solution accuracy and correct‑step retention, showing that SMRC outperforms existing methods on several datasets.
arXiv:2509.05346v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being adopted to support personalized learning, there remains limited understanding of how thei...
arXiv:2606. 31048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper investigates knowledge distillation from a large reasoning model (DeepSeek-R1) to a compact student model (Qwen2.
arXiv:2604. 26962v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Education is one of the most promising real-world applications for Large Language Models (LLMs).