TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back?
📄 Tech Report: https://tutormoments.allen.ai/static/paper/tutormoments-preview.pdf | 📊 Data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/tutormoments-preview | 💻 Code: https://github.com/allenai/tutormoments
Today we’re introducing a preview of TutorMoments, a framework to measure whether cutting-edge LLMs can balance one of the hardest trade-offs in education: when to step in and help a student and when to hold back and let the student do more of the work.
TutorMoments is a replay-based evaluation built off real one-on-one math tutoring sessions. Experienced math teachers go through transcripts collected from a U.S. tutoring program and flag the moments where a tutor had to choose between making a problem easier to get started on and pushing the student to do more of the reasoning themselves. TutorMoments then takes the transcript up to that decision point, hands it to a language model, and has the model take over as the tutor in a simulated session – with the student played by