For many students, asking ChatGPT for homework help has replaced raising a hand in class or going to office hours. As AI becomes a default classroom tutor, educators are grappling with a new question: How do you design these tools so they actually support learning?
A new paper from Wharton PhD candidate Angel Tsai-Hsuan Chung, incoming Penn PhD student Botong Zhang, National Taiwan University professor Ling-Chieh Kung, Wharton professor Hamsa Bastani, and Penn professor Osbert Bastani explores how small design changes can make AI tutoring more effective by emulating the most effective practices of human instructors. This experiment was funded in part by the Mack Institute.