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Simulating Disengaged Students to Evaluate LLM-based Tutors

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 11, 2026 · UTC

Simulated students generated by computational models provide a practical way to evaluate tutoring strategies and pedagogical approaches used by human and AI tutors. However, such simulations should account for disengaged behaviors, including gaming the system, wheel-spinning, and off-task behavior, because tutors may need different responses for different learner states. We present Disengagement-Aware Student Simulators (DAS2), a reproducible pre-deployment protocol that models five learner-engagement states: engaged, gaming, wheel-spinning, off-task, and mixed, and evaluates AI tutor performa

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