In a preliminary 2×3 controlled lesson study across five backbone LLMs, structured student agents produce more differentiated mastery and misconception traces than a baseline simulator¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2029: tool and model accuracy changes quickly

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q2 i? Structured student agents yield more differentiated mastery and misconception traces than a baseline simulator in a 2×3 lesson study across five backbone LLMs. → Yulei Ye 2026

Evidence¶

Yulei Ye 2026¶

Yulei Ye, Wenhao Li, Zhong Wen, Yunshu Huang, Yichen Hu, Zifan Wei, Yige Wang, Xinyu Xie, Haoxuan Yang, Yanjun Huang, Ruijia Li, Hong Qian, Yu Song, Bo Jiang, Bingdong Li, Lijun Li, Bo Zhang, Pinlong Cai, Xingcheng Xu, Shuangye Chen, Xia Hu, Liang He, Aimin Zhou, Jingjing Qu, Jing Shao, Xiangfeng Wang. (2026). AgentSchool: An LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Simulation for Education. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30144 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.30144

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Preliminary controlled lesson study reported in the paper's overview of results, comparing structured student agents against a baseline simulator across five backbone LLMs. The paper reports that "structured student agents produce more differentiated mastery and misconception traces than a baseline simulator"; no effect size or test statistic is printed in the available text.

"In a2×3 controlled lesson study across five backbone LLMs, structured student agents produce more differentiated mastery and misconception traces than a baseline simulator"

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