Student utterances requiring instructional scaffolding rose from about 16.1% early in the consultation to about 34.8% late¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2031: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Expert annotations indicated approximately 24.1% of student utterances required scaffolding, with need concentrated in the late phase of the encounter. → Yang 2026

Evidence¶

Yang 2026¶

Yang, L., Liu, H., Li, S., Jia, R., Xiao, Y., Chen, G., & Lu, L. (2026). Evaluating Scaffolding-Oriented Multi-Agent Large Language Model System for Clinical Interview Training. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10939 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.10939

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Turn-level expert annotation of the released consultation corpus (2,350 student messages) found "approximately 24.1% of student utterances required instructional scaffolding", rising from about 16.1% early to about 34.8% late in the encounter, suggesting learners needed more support during integration, diagnostic reasoning, and management decisions.

"It increased from approximately 16.1% in the early phase of the consultation to approximately 34.8% in the late phase, suggesting that learners more often required support when the encounter moved from initial information gathering toward integration, diagnostic reasoning, and management decisions"

Discussion¶

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