Khanmigo doesn't answer student questions directly, but starts with questions of its own, such as asking whether the student has any ideas about how to find an answer. Then it guides them to a solution, step by step, with hints and encouragement.
When students are working independently on a skill or concept but get hung up or caught in a cognitive rut, she says, 'we want to help students get unstuck.'
The degree to which Khanmigo has closed AI's engagement gap is not yet known. Khan Academy plans to release some summary data on student-bot interactions later this summer.
Working with researchers from the University of Memphis and the University of Colorado, the Saga team pilot in 2023 fed transcripts of their math tutoring sessions into an AI model trained to recognize when the tutor was prompting students to explain their reasoning, refine their answers, or initiate a deeper discussion.
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