Large Language Models Generalize SRL Prediction to New Languages Within But Not Between Domains
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Think-aloud protocols are a standard method to study self-regulated learning (SRL) during learning by problem-solving. Advances in automated transcription and large language models (LLMs) have automated the transcription and labeling of SRL in these protocols, reducing manual effort. However, while effective in many emerging applications, previous works show LLMs struggle with reliably classifying SRL across specific instructional domains, such as chemistry or formal logic. Can LLMs reliably classify SRL within a given domain, but also across different languages that represent distinct instructional approaches? This study investigates using classification models based on LLM embeddings to automatically detect SRL in think-aloud transcripts of 26 students at German and American universities working with three tutoring systems for chemistry and formal logic. Using OpenAI's text-embedding-3-small, we predicted four categories of SRL processes based on the four-stage SRL model by Winne and Hadwin (processing information, planning, enacting, and realizing errors). We compare how well embedding-based SRL models transfer between English and German across chemistry and logic domains, including how levels of scaffolding in the tutoring systems and culturally unfamiliar instruction impact transfer. We found that LLM embedding-based classifiers trained on English data can reliably classify SRL categories in German think-aloud data (and vice versa) with minimal performance degradation within but not between domains of instruction. Further, model transfer performance declined due to linguistic differences in subject-specific terminology and unawareness of instructional context, such as specific hint messages. Considering these factors in future refinement of our methodology will move the field closer to the research goal of a reliable SRL classifier that is domain-, language-, and learning system-general.
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self-regulated learning, think-aloud protocols, large language models, NLP, intelligent tutoring systems, instructional context, chemistry education, prediction, classification
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