Toward In-Context Teaching: Adapting Examples to Students' Misconceptions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04495v1
• Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 17:05:27 GMT
• Title: Toward In-Context Teaching: Adapting Examples to Students' Misconceptions
• Authors: Alexis Ross, Jacob Andreas,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a suite of models and evaluation methods we call AdapT. AToM is a new probabilistic model for adaptive teaching that jointly infers students' past beliefs and optimize for the correctness of future beliefs. Our results highlight both the difficulty of the adaptive teaching task and the potential of learned adaptive models for solving it.
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• Abstract: When a teacher provides examples for a student to study, these examples must be informative, enabling a student to progress from their current state toward a target concept or skill. Good teachers must therefore simultaneously infer what students already know and adapt their teaching to students' changing state of knowledge. There is increasing interest in using computational models, particularly large language models, as pedagogical tools. As students, language models in particular have shown a remarkable ability to adapt to new tasks given small numbers of examples. But how effectively can these models adapt as teachers to students of different types? To study this question, we introduce a suite of models and evaluation methods we call AdapT. AdapT has two components: (1) a collection of simulated Bayesian student models that can be used for evaluation of automated teaching methods; (2) a platform for evaluation with human students, to characterize the real-world effectiveness of these methods. We additionally introduce (3) AToM, a new probabilistic model for adaptive teaching that jointly infers students' past beliefs and optimizes for the correctness of future beliefs. In evaluations of simulated students across three learning domains (fraction arithmetic, English morphology, function learning), AToM systematically outperforms LLM-based and standard Bayesian teaching models. In human experiments, both AToM and LLMs outperform non-adaptive random example selection. Our results highlight both the difficulty of the adaptive teaching task and the potential of learned adaptive models for solving it.

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