{
  "id": 18722,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12292",
  "title": "Teaching a Large Language Model Tutor to Withhold the Answer: A Supervisor Architecture and an Evidence-Driven Method for Tuning Socratic Behavior",
  "summary": "arXiv:2608.12292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An effective large language model (LLM) tutor must often decline to give an answer it could easily produce. In a randomized study, students who used an unguarded chatbot scored higher while practicing but lower on a later test taken without it, whereas a Socratically guarded version of the same model kept the practice gain and removed the later loss [4]. Reliable answer-withholding is therefore central to a tutor's value, yet a capable model presse",
  "authors": "Yusuf Pisan",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-13T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18722",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12292",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}