Comparing the Science Talk of AI and Human Students
Alex James Barrett, Nuodi Zhang, Fengfeng Ke, Chih‐Pu Dai · Proceedings. · 2024
This poster reports on an exploratory comparison of middle school science classroom discourse from AI-powered virtual student agents and human students.Transcripts from both simulated science classes with preservice teachers and AI students and recordings of real science classes were coded using a framework of student science talk moves.Results suggest that the AI and human discourse is mostly similar, although the AI tended to ask questions much more frequently than human students did.