In an ARC trial deployment, undergraduate mentors' retrospective pre-then-post ratings of teaching confidence and community connection increased substantially¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Undergraduate mentors' confidence teaching technical concepts increased from 3.00±1.15 to 4.29±0.49 and confidence adapting explanations from 3.29±1.11 to 4.43±0.53 on five-point Likert retrospective surveys. → Jacobson 2026 q2 i? The largest change was connection to the local community, which increased from 1.86±1.07 to 4.00±0.82. → Jacobson 2026

Evidence¶

Jacobson 2026¶

Jacobson, M. J.; Rodriguez-Rivera, G.; Drineas, P.; and Xue, Y. (2026). Teaching AI, Robotics, & Community: A Hubs-Based K–12 Education Framework for Reaching Rural Schools. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18072 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.18072

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Retrospective pre-then-post survey of undergraduate mentors (n=7 of nine enrolled) in the ARC course trial at one Indiana university, reported in the Trial Deployment section. The article reports "Confidence teaching technical concepts increased" with the printed means; no effect size or significance test is printed, so no magnitude is coded.

"Confidence teaching technical concepts increased from3.00±1.15to4.29±0.49, while confidence adapting explanations increased from3.29±1.11to4.43±0.53."

Discussion¶

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