In simulation, an adaptive prompt router outperforms two static prompt baselines on pedagogical score across 390 scenarios¶
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q2 i? The dynamic routing model achieves a higher mean pedagogical score (0.694) than the production baseline (0.64) and the literature baseline (0.647) in simulation, p<0.001. → Po-Chin Chang 2026
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Po-Chin Chang 2026¶
Po-Chin Chang, Nicholas Hogan, Aske Plaat, Michiel T. van der Meer. (2026). Learning to Prompt: Improving Student Engagement with Adaptive LLM-based High-School Tutoring. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20138 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.20138
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Simulation benchmark over 390 simulated scenarios comparing the frozen routing model against the Futurewhiz production prompt and the static Dinucu_Prompt. The router "achieves the highest mean score (0.694)" and eliminates the tail of severe pedagogical failures (scores<0.4).
"Figure 10 shows that the router achieves the highest mean score (0.694), but both the commercial production baseline and the literature promptDinucu_Prompthave lower mean score (0.64 with production baseline, 0.647 with literature prompt,p<0.001 )."
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In simulation, an adaptive prompt router outperforms two static prompt baselines on pedagogical score across 390 scenarios |
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In simulation, an adaptive prompt router outperforms two static prompt baselines on pedagogical score across 390 scenarios |
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