SID: Benchmarking Guided Instruction Capabilities in STEM Education with a Socratic Interdisciplinary Dialogues Dataset

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04563v1
• Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:49:26 GMT
• Title: SID: Benchmarking Guided Instruction Capabilities in STEM Education with a Socratic Interdisciplinary Dialogues Dataset
• Authors: Mei Jiang, Houping Yue, Bingdong Li, Hao Hao, Ying Qian, Bo Jiang, Aimin Zhou,
• Abstract summary: We introduce SID, the first benchmark designed to evaluate the higher-order guidance capabilities of LLMs.<n>Our contributions include a large-scale dataset of 10,000 dialogue turns across 48 complex STEM projects.<n> Baseline experiments confirm that even state-of-the-art LLMs struggle to execute effective guided dialogues.
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• Abstract: Fostering students' abilities for knowledge integration and transfer in complex problem-solving scenarios is a core objective of modern education, and interdisciplinary STEM is a key pathway to achieve this, yet it requires expert guidance that is difficult to scale. While LLMs offer potential in this regard, their true capability for guided instruction remains unclear due to the lack of an effective evaluation benchmark. To address this, we introduce SID, the first benchmark designed to systematically evaluate the higher-order guidance capabilities of LLMs in multi-turn, interdisciplinary Socratic dialogues. Our contributions include a large-scale dataset of 10,000 dialogue turns across 48 complex STEM projects, a novel annotation schema for capturing deep pedagogical features, and a new suite of evaluation metrics (e.g., X-SRG). Baseline experiments confirm that even state-of-the-art LLMs struggle to execute effective guided dialogues that lead students to achieve knowledge integration and transfer. This highlights the critical value of our benchmark in driving the development of more pedagogically-aware LLMs.

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