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Six-family guided LLM-use protocol operationalizing scaffolding, help-seeking, self-regulation, and AI-literacy principles

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Description

The guided-use protocol is a student-facing training and rule set delivered before Topic 2 with weekly reminders, framing the model as "a fallible tutor rather than an answer source" and emphasizing "explanation-seeking, stepwise help , verification, and ethical use." It defines six observable rule families: R1 process-over-answer, R2 concept tutoring, R3 stepwise-hint seeking, R4 active practice and retrieval, R5 verification and calibrated trust, and R6 ethical/no-help use. The authors describe it as translating established learning-science principles into transcript-codeable LLM-use behaviors rather than a generic prompting template.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Explicit slide-based orientation with examples of productive and unproductive prompts before LLM use begins, plus weekly reminders

Constraints

  • The same LLM platform and model were used in both LLM-access conditions; guidance differed through training and rules rather than a separate model or hard-coded guided mode

Target Learners

  • second-semester Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering undergraduates

Learning Goals

  • probabilistic reasoning including conditional probability, Bayes' theorem, random variables, and distributions

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Key Sources

  • Mohammad Amanlou, Yasaman Amou-Jafari, Fereshte Bagheri, Fatemeh Boloukazari, Mehrad Liviyan, Elahe Khodaverdi Nadrabadi, Shahab Sherafat, Behnam Bahrak. (2026). Beyond Access: Guided LLM Scaffolding for Independent Learning in Undergraduate Statistics. Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Computers in Education. https://github.com/MohammadAmanlou/Guided-LLM-Scaffolding
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title Six-family guided LLM-use protocol operationalizing scaffolding, help-seeking, self-regulation, and AI-literacy principles
description The guided-use protocol is a student-facing training and rule set delivered before Topic 2 with weekly reminders, framing the model as "a fallible tutor rather than an answer source" and emphasizing "explanation-seeki...
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