Mentigo: An Intelligent Agent for Mentoring Students in the Creative Problem Solving Process

Mentigo is an AI mentor agent system designed to guide middle school students through creative problem solving (CPS) processes, providing scaffolding, personalized feedback, and Socratic questioning based on real classroom mentor-student interactions. The system was evaluated through comparative experiments with 12 students and reviewed by expert teachers, demonstrating improvements in student engagement and creative outcomes.

Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) promotes creative and critical thinking while enhancing real-world problem-solving skills, making it essential for middle school education. However, providing personalized mentorship in CPS projects at scale is challenging due to resource constraints and diverse student needs. To address this, we developed Mentigo, an AI-driven mentor agent designed to guide middle school students through the CPS process. Using a dataset of real classroom interactions, we encoded C

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