CAP Notes and Practice Agents

CAP notes is a mentoring practice tool allowing coaches to understand, on a deeper level, regulation-skills or the cognitive, metacognitive, emotional and strategic behavior students use when tackling novel, innovative problems. It allows coaches to specifically understand, model and trace gaps in a student's regulation and ineffective work practices leading to ineffective problem-solving. The coach is able to scaffold regulation-informed practices based on diagnostic assessments and context from a project team meeting. In this way, students can develop regulation-skills, incrementally learn to self-direct problem-solving, and bridge their understanding of themselves with how coaches view them. Currently, our research aims to measure how LLMs can support coaches in taking CAP notes through contrastive analysis between CAP notes written manually versus CAP notes drafted with the assistance of LLMs. Our goal is not to replace a coach's diagnostic reasoning, but to assist them in recalling key meeting details, minimize redundancy and maximize their time spent on more cognitively-taxing elements of CAP notes.