Qualitative analysis found staged disclosure sometimes withheld inaccurate diagnostic details, but some errors still shaped student revisions¶
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q1 i? In sampled trajectories, an inaccurate hidden diagnosis could remain hidden behind educator-authored conceptual content, be incorporated by the student, or coexist with correct recommendations that students selectively adopted; correct explicit feedback did not guarantee the intended artifact change. → Sara Riazi and Pedram Rooshenas 2026
Evidence¶
Sara Riazi and Pedram Rooshenas 2026¶
Sara Riazi and Pedram Rooshenas. (2026). An Educator-Guided LLM Pedagogical Agent for Scaffolded Feedback in Conceptual Database Design. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00870 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2610.00870
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Manual inspection of randomly sampled trajectories illustrating five divergence patterns (incorrect detail not exposed, contradictory diagnoses not disclosed, selective incorporation, incorrect target incorporated, correct diagnosis without incorporation). The article states these cases "do not estimate the prevalence of each pattern".
"In some Stage 1 trajectories, an inaccurate hidden diagnosis was used to select a related conceptual topic rather than being shown as detailed diagram feedback."
Discussion¶
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Qualitative analysis found staged disclosure sometimes withheld inaccurate diagnostic details, but some errors still shaped student revisions |
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Qualitative analysis found staged disclosure sometimes withheld inaccurate diagnostic details, but some errors still shaped student revisions |
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2026 |
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