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Manu Kapur

5 accepted papers

2025

MathTutorBench: A Benchmark for Measuring Open-ended Pedagogical Capabilities of LLM Tutors

EMNLP 2025

Evaluating the pedagogical capabilities of AI-based tutoring models is critical for making guided progress in the field. Yet, we lack a reliable, easy-to-use, and simple-to-run evaluation that reflects the pedagogical abilities of models. To fill this gap, we present MathTutorBench, an open-source b

2025

Towards the Pedagogical Steering of Large Language Models for Tutoring: A Case Study with Modeling Productive Failure

ACL 2025finding

One-to-one tutoring is one of the most efficient methods of teaching. With the growing popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), there have been efforts to create LLM-based conversational tutors which can expand the benefits of one-to-one tutoring to everyone. However, current LLMs are trained pri…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Stepwise Verification and Remediation of Student Reasoning Errors with Large Language Model Tutors

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) offer many opportunities to scale high-quality personalized tutoring. A promising approach is to build dialog tutoring models to scaffold students’ problem-solving. However, even though existing models perform well in solving reasoning questions, they can struggle to pre…

2023

MathDial: A Dialogue Tutoring Dataset with Rich Pedagogical Properties Grounded in Math Reasoning Problems

EMNLP 2023long findings

While automatic dialogue tutors hold great potential in making education personalized and more accessible, research on such systems has been hampered by a lack of sufficiently large and high-quality datasets. Collecting such datasets remains challenging, as recording tutoring sessions raises privacy…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2022

Automatic Generation of Socratic Subquestions for Teaching Math Word Problems

EMNLP 2022main

Socratic questioning is an educational method that allows students to discover answers to complex problems by asking them a series of thoughtful questions. Generation of didactically sound questions is challenging, requiring understanding of the reasoning process involved in the problem. We hypothes…