Students rarely formulated questions specifying both knowledge component and scaffold type during chatbot problem-solving¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? In a classroom deployment, fewer than 25% of student questions were specific, and 20% specified neither a knowledge component nor a scaffold type. → Hyoungwook Jin 2026

Evidence¶

Hyoungwook Jin 2026¶

Hyoungwook Jin, Weirui Peng, Jieun Han, Q. Vera Liao, and Xu Wang. (2026). HelpCoach: Scaffolding Targeted AI Help-Seeking During Problem-Solving. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28918 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.28918

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Classroom deployment collecting chatbot interaction logs from 44 undergraduates completing three Vue.js tasks; human annotation plus an LLM classifier measured question specificity. The article reports that only less than 25% of questions were specific (Table 4).

"Only less than 25% of questions were specific (Table 4). Twenty per- cent of student questions specified neither a knowledge component nor a scaffold type, leaving the chatbot to determine both the con- tent and form of support."

Discussion¶

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