K-12 learners preferred incremental hints and multiple attempts over immediately revealed solutions¶
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q2 i? Participants consistently preferred support that preserved opportunities for problem solving, valuing the option to try problems on their own and receive hints when needed. → hints-1
Evidence¶
hints-1¶
Cassandra Lucas, Anshul Bihani, Rohini Kukka, Chun-Hua Tsai, Jaydeb Sarker, and Mia Mohammad Imran. 2026. TowardsSocratiCode: Designing a Generative AI-Based Programming Tutor for K-12 Students through a 4-Week Participatory Design Study. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17857 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.17857
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Participant quote from the four-week study's feedback data. Early in the study, participants explicitly requested more guided hints instead of full solutions, with one suggesting the system let users try multiple times and provide a small relative hint on request.
"The GPT also asked me if I wanted a hint or if I wanted to do the problem on my own. . . which was a nice option."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
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Persistence and performance costs concentrate among participants who used the AI to obtain direct solutions, while hint-users resemble controls — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
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Learners receiving ChatGPT-generated hints showed statistically significant learning gains compared to a no-hint control in an online mathematics tutoring experiment — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
- Productive Failure Improves Conceptual Learning — a broader claim this one bears on
- Hint Factory MDP-generated hints gave correct next-step hints over 80% of the time and a pilot showed students solved more logic proofs with hints — related
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K-12 learners preferred incremental hints and multiple attempts over immediately revealed solutions |
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K-12 learners preferred incremental hints and multiple attempts over immediately revealed solutions |
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