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How can an adaptive tutor distinguish misconception, lack of knowledge, and guessing from limited MCQ evidence?

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I'm exploring a financial-literacy tutoring agent where the learner's knowledge is a latent or uncertain state, and the tutor only observes responses to MCQs. If the evidence is limited, how can the tutor distinguish misconception vs. lack of knowledge vs. guessing ? Also, when the learner state is…

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  1. 2026-08-31 05:10 · r/learnmachinelearning
    How can an adaptive tutor distinguish misconception, lack of knowledge, and guessing from limited MCQ evidence?

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