Context prompts: instructor-designed prompts defining role, task, and boundaries of a Gen AI interaction¶

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Description¶

The article's central framework is the context prompt: instructor-designed prompts that establish guidelines for generative AI to follow during student interactions. The authors write that through a context prompt, instructors establish guidelines for Gen AI to follow that can guide students in exploration and reflection activities, and that it is important to provide Gen AI specific guidelines in order to scaffold it to stay on target. The prompt is prioritized at the start of the chat and maintained across the conversation.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

The context prompt must contain key elements of prompt engineering so that the outputs remain constrained and on-target

Constraints¶

Gen AI models are not equal, and the choice of platform matters

Target Learners¶

university students in introductory physics

Learning Goals¶

conceptual understanding of physics topics through AI-guided dialogue

Claims¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Miguel Rodriguez and Peter Wulff. (2026). Artificial Intelligence Driven Physics Assignments using Context Prompts. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22578

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`type`	`design`
`id`	`context-prompts-gen-ai-physics`
`title`	`Context prompts: instructor-designed prompts defining role, task, and boundaries of a Gen AI interaction`
`description`	`The article's central framework is the context prompt: instructor-designed prompts that establish guidelines for generative AI to follow during student interactions.`
`status`	`review`
`generated`	by `process:settle-candidates` on `2026-10-10`
`trust`	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
`sources`	1 — `miguel-rodriguez-and-peter-wulff-2026`

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