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MisconceptDialogue: Evaluation Criteria Shape Measured Success in LLM Math Tutoring

arXiv自然语言 2026-10-01 13:48 3 阅读 查看原文
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    - Introduction: LLMs as math tutors, two questions raised
    - The framework MISCONCEPTDIALOGUE and methodology
    - Measurement findings: discrepancy between exact-match scoring (42.1%) and LLM-as-judge (81.3%), 39.2 percentage-point spread
    - Not a single-judge artifact: four LLM judges and 200 human annotations
    - Capability findings: tutors barely use diagnostic information
    - Conclusion/recommendation
    
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    Judge Convergence

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    Large language models are increasingly used as math tutors, raising two questions: can a single LLM detect a student's error, diagnose the underlying misconception, and remediate it through multi-turn dialogue - and can we trust the numbers that report how well it does?

    We address both with MISCONCEPTDIALOGUE, a fully automated framework that runs the full pipeline on five open-weight LLM tutors (7B-14B) interacting with LLM-simulated students over 5,000+ dialogues - a deliberately simulated protocol (paired conditions, a wrong-diagnosis control unsafe with real learners, scale) whose results do not establish real-student learning.

    Measurement Findings

    On measurement, our headline finding is uncomfortable for the field: benchmark-style exact-match scoring common in standard math NLP - a lower-bound stress test - reports 42.1% measured Remediation Success Rate on identical dialogues where a human-calibrated LLM-as-judge reports 81.3%, a 39.2 percentage-point spread larger than the combined effects of tutor model, teaching strategy, and supplied diagnostic information.

    This is not a single-judge artifact: four independent LLM judges and 200 human annotations converge to within a few points (kappa up to 0.91).

    Capability Verdict

    On capability, the verdict is equally striking: the score barely changes whether we tell the tutor the student's actual misconception or a deliberately swapped one - under the tested diagnosis-presentation format, these tutors show little evidence of reliably conditioning on the diagnostic information they are handed.

    For LLM tutoring evaluation to mature, multi-criterion scoring with multi-judge convergence and human anchoring should become standard practice - and the measurement question deserves as much scrutiny as the capability question it claims to answer.

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