Socratic Mind: Scalable Oral Assessment Powered By AI

Jui-Tse Hung, Christopher Cui, Diana M. Popescu, Saurabh Chatterjee, Thad Starner

Abstract: Interactive teaching methods often lead to higher levels of student engagement with course material. Yet, as class sizes increase, the demand on teaching staff becomes unsustainable. Our solution, Socratic Mind, employs Large Language Models to provide scalable, interactive oral assessments by functioning as a virtual instructor. This paper discusses the outcomes and user feedback from the preliminary implementation of our system in a large classroom environment with 600 students.