KITE's feedback led simulated students to improve revised answers in 24 of 27 non-already-correct interactions (88.89%)¶

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q2 i? Among 27 simulated-student interactions whose initial answer was not already correct, 24 revised answers (88.89%) were judged improved after KITE's feedback. → Mragisha Jain 2026

Evidence¶

Mragisha Jain 2026¶

Mragisha Jain, Tirth Bhatt, Griffin Pitts, Aum Pandya, Peter Brusilovsky, Narges Norouzi, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Bita Akram. (2026). Retrieval-Augmented Tutoring for Algorithm Tracing and Problem-Solving in AI Education. Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2026), co-located with ACL 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12988 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.12988

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Simulated student pipeline using Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct as a proxy student across two-turn dialogues with KITE feedback, with expert judgment of Round 1 to Round 2 transitions. The study reports "24 showed improvement after KITE's feedback (88.89%)".

"Among the 27 interactions that were not already correct, 24 showed improvement after KITE's feedback (88.89%)."

Discussion¶

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