Beyond Helpfulness: A Teaching-over-Solving Diagnostic for Measuring Educational Impact in LLM Tutors

arXiv:2606.16206 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CY, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-06-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CY, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-06-15

Updated: 2026-08-31

Terminology

• Benchmark — 41× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaffolding — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Active Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Actionability — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Discerning minds or generic tutors? Evaluating instructional guidance capabilities in Socratic LLMs
• Tutor CoPilot: A Human-AI Approach for Scaling Real-Time Expertise
• Perturbation Sensitivity of Maximum-Likelihood Pairwise Ranking in Computational Decision Systems

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