GPT-4 as a Homework Tutor Can Improve Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a recent study has shown that homework is never graded or is done superficially. |
| Approach: | They propose a prompting strategy that enables GPT-4 to conduct interactive homework sessions for high school students learning English as a second language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed solution improves homework in high school students learning English as a second language with minimal effort in content preparation, one of the key challenges of alternative methods. |
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