{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/how-learner-control-and-explainable-learning","title":"How Learner Control and Explainable Learning Analytics on Skill Mastery Shape Student Desires to Finish and Avoid Loss in Tutored Practice","arxiv_id":"2412.10568","date":"2024-12-13","proceeding":null,"authors":["Conrad Borchers","Jeroen Ooge","Cindy Peng","Vincent Aleven"],"abstract":"Personalized problem selection enhances student practice in tutoring systems. Prior research has focused on transparent problem selection that supports learner control but rarely engages learners in selecting practice materials. We explored how different levels of control (i.e., full AI control, shared control, and full learner control), combined with showing learning analytics on skill mastery and visual what-if explanations, can support students in practice contexts requiring high degrees of self-regulation, such as homework. Semi-structured interviews with six middle school students revealed three key insights: (1) participants highly valued learner control for an enhanced learning experience and better self-regulation, especially because most wanted to avoid losses in skill mastery; (2) only seeing their skill mastery estimates often made participants base problem selection on their weaknesses; and (3) what-if explanations stimulated participants to focus more on their strengths and improve skills until they were mastered. These findings show how explainable learning analytics could shape students' selection strategies when they have control over what to practice. They suggest promising avenues for helping students learn to regulate their effort, motivation, and goals during practice with tutoring systems.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10568v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.10568v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"how-learner-control-and-explainable-learning","repo_url":"https://github.com/conradborchers/mastery-xai-lak25","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}