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Hogg, Charles and
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Cognitive Engagement in GenAI Tutor Conversations: At-scale Measurement and Impact on Learning
%A Weatherholtz, Kodi
%A Hill, Kelli Millwood
%A Dicerbo, Kristen
%A Wells, Walt
%A Grimaldi, Phillip
%A Miller-Vedam, Maya
%A Hogg, Charles
%A Yamkovenko, Bogdan
%Y Wilson, Joshua
%Y Ormerod, Christopher
%Y Beiting Parrish, Magdalen
%S Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Works in Progress
%D 2025
%8 October
%I National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)
%C Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh, Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
%@ 979-8-218-84229-1
%F weatherholtz-etal-2025-cognitive
%X We developed and validated a scalable LLM-based labeler for classifying student cognitive engagement in GenAI tutoring conversations. Higher engagement levels predicted improved next-item performance, though further research is needed to assess distal transfer and to disentangle effects of continued tutor use from true learning transfer.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.aimecon-wip.6/
%P 40-48
Markdown (Informal)
[Cognitive Engagement in GenAI Tutor Conversations: At-scale Measurement and Impact on Learning](https://aclanthology.org/2025.aimecon-wip.6/) (Weatherholtz et al., AIME-Con 2025)
ACL
- Kodi Weatherholtz, Kelli Millwood Hill, Kristen Dicerbo, Walt Wells, Phillip Grimaldi, Maya Miller-Vedam, Charles Hogg, and Bogdan Yamkovenko. 2025. Cognitive Engagement in GenAI Tutor Conversations: At-scale Measurement and Impact on Learning. In Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Works in Progress, pages 40–48, Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh, Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).