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title = "{GPT}-4 as a Homework Tutor Can Improve Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes",
author = "Vanzo, Alessandro and
Pal Chowdhury, Sankalan and
Sachan, Mrinmaya",
editor = "Che, Wanxiang and
Nabende, Joyce and
Shutova, Ekaterina and
Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2025",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.1502/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1502",
pages = "31119--31136",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-251-0",
abstract = "This work contributes to the scarce empirical literature on LLM-based interactive homework in real-world educational settings and offers a practical, scalable solution to improve homework in schools. Homework is an important part of education in schools across the world, but to maximize benefit, it must be accompanied by feedback and follow-up questions. We developed a prompting strategy that enables GPT-4 to conduct interactive homework sessions for high school students learning English as a second language. Our strategy requires minimal effort in content preparation, one of the key challenges of alternatives such as home tutors or ITSs. We carried out a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in four high-school classes, replacing traditional homework with GPT-4 homework sessions for the treatment group. We found that the treatment group had higher levels of satisfaction and desire to keep using the system among the students. This occurred without compromising learning outcomes, and one group even showed significantly better learning gains."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T GPT-4 as a Homework Tutor Can Improve Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes
%A Vanzo, Alessandro
%A Pal Chowdhury, Sankalan
%A Sachan, Mrinmaya
%Y Che, Wanxiang
%Y Nabende, Joyce
%Y Shutova, Ekaterina
%Y Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher
%S Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2025
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Vienna, Austria
%@ 979-8-89176-251-0
%F vanzo-etal-2025-gpt
%X This work contributes to the scarce empirical literature on LLM-based interactive homework in real-world educational settings and offers a practical, scalable solution to improve homework in schools. Homework is an important part of education in schools across the world, but to maximize benefit, it must be accompanied by feedback and follow-up questions. We developed a prompting strategy that enables GPT-4 to conduct interactive homework sessions for high school students learning English as a second language. Our strategy requires minimal effort in content preparation, one of the key challenges of alternatives such as home tutors or ITSs. We carried out a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in four high-school classes, replacing traditional homework with GPT-4 homework sessions for the treatment group. We found that the treatment group had higher levels of satisfaction and desire to keep using the system among the students. This occurred without compromising learning outcomes, and one group even showed significantly better learning gains.
%R 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1502
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.1502/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1502
%P 31119-31136
Markdown (Informal)
[GPT-4 as a Homework Tutor Can Improve Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.1502/) (Vanzo et al., ACL 2025)
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