Guest-mode usage dominates lightweight help-seeking, raising an equity concern that students without metacognitive support stay at shallow answer lookup¶

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q2 i? 5,155 filtered events (69.9%) occurred in guest mode versus 2,224 events (30.1%) from logged-in users, revealing tension between lightweight help and durable learning records. → guest-telemetry

Evidence¶

guest-telemetry¶

Harry Feng, Yuan Tian, and Erica Zhao. 2026. From Answer Generators to Reasoning Facilitators: Designing AI Tutors for Mathematical Reasoning in High-Stakes Environments. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01692 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.01692

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Account-state telemetry from the field deployment. The authors interpret this as students seeking lightweight one-off help without committing to the account needed for history and saved-practice features.

"5,155 events (69.9%) occurred in guest mode, while only 2,224 events (30.1%) came from logged-in users."

Discussion¶

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