Explore/agent app/A Theory-Guided LLM Pedagogical Agent for STEM+C Scaffolding Without Over-Reliance
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Clayton Cohn, Surya Rayala, Siyuan Guo, Hanchen David Wang, Naveeduddin Mohammed, Umesh Timalsina, Shruti Jain, Ryan Li, Angela Eeds, Menton Deweese, Pamela J. Osborn Popp, Rebekah Stanton, Shakeera Walker, Ashwin T S, Meiyi Ma, Gautam Biswas/A Theory-Guided LLM Pedagogical Agent for STEM+C Scaffolding Without Over-RelianceUnknown

LLM pedagogical agents are proliferating, yet recent findings have raised questions about their adherence to established theories of learning and, by extension, their educational value. Concerns regarding cognitive offloading, over-reliance, and "gaming" behaviors persist and remain largely unaddressed. In response, we developed Copa, an agentic, multi-agent, multimodal Collaborative Peer Agent for STEM+C learning. Copa is built on top of the Evidence-Decision-Feedback (EDF) framework, grounding its interactions in Social Cognitive Theory and Social Constructivism and promoting sense-making through adaptive, dialogic support rather than answer-seeking. In an authentic high school computational-modeling study (n=33 dyads), we demonstrate that Copa (1) supports students' confidence building and ability to verbalize conceptual understanding without causing dependence; and (2) provides adaptive feedback personalized to learners that is interpretable with respect to students' multimodal input data. These findings position theory-guided, multimodal LLM agents as a promising path toward classroom AI integration that amplifies students' reasoning rather than replacing it.

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