Do Hackers Dream of Electric Teachers?: A Large-Scale, In-Situ Measurement of Cybersecurity Student Behaviors and Educational Performance with AI Tutors
Three broad AI tutor conversation styles are identified among students: Short (bounded, few-turn exchanges), Reactive (repeatedly submitting code and errors), and Proactive (driving problem-solving through targeted inquiry), which are significantly correlated with challenge completion and the completion-rate gap betwee...