Enhancing Critical Thinking in Education by means of a Socratic Chatbot

This paper presents a Socratic chatbot fine-tuned on open-source LLMs (Llama2 7B/13B) designed to foster critical thinking in students through structured questioning rather than providing direct answers. The system is evaluated through simulated student-chatbot interactions to assess its effectiveness in promoting reflection and critical thinking compared to standard chatbots.

While large language models (LLMs) are increasingly playing a pivotal role in education by providing instantaneous, adaptive responses, their potential to promote critical thinking remains understudied. In this paper, we fill such a gap and present an innovative educational chatbot designed to foster critical thinking through Socratic questioning. Unlike traditional intelligent tutoring systems, including educational chatbots, that tend to offer direct answers, the proposed Socratic tutor encour

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