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Prober.ai: Gated Inquiry-Based Feedback via LLM-Constrained Personas for Argumentative Writing Development

arXiv:2605. 05598v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) in educational settings has paradoxically undermined the cognitive processes they purport to support.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 3

Expos\'ia: Teaching and Assessment of Academic Writing Skills for Research Project Proposals and Peer Feedback

Exposía is the first public dataset linking academic writing and feedback in higher education, comprising student research project proposals, peer and instructor comments, and free-text reviews collected from a Computer Science course. It includes human assessment scores based on a fine‑grained, pedagogically‑grounded schema for both writing and feedback. The dataset is used to benchmark large language models on automated scoring of proposals and student reviews, revealing that different LLMs excel at each task and that closed‑source models outperform open‑weight ones, while a multi‑aspect prompting strategy proves most effective for classroom deployment.

By Dennis Zyska, Alla Rozovskaya, Ilia Kuznetsov, Iryna Gurevych
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

EduDial: Constructing a Large-scale Multi-turn Teacher-Student Dialogue Corpus

EduDial is a large-scale multi-turn teacher‑student dialogue corpus covering 345 core knowledge points and 34,250 dialogue sessions, designed around Bloom’s taxonomy and ten questioning strategies such as situational, ZPD, and metacognitive questioning. The dataset includes differentiated teaching strategies for students at varying cognitive levels to provide targeted guidance. Using EduDial, the authors trained EduDial‑LLM 32B and introduced an 11‑dimensional evaluation framework that measures teaching quality and content quality, showing that most mainstream LLMs struggle with student‑centered teaching while EduDial‑LLM outperforms all baselines across all metrics.

By Shouang Wei, Min Zhang, Xin Lin, Bo Jiang, Zhongxiang Dai, Kun Kuang
arXiv AI
Aug 11

How to Ask the AI: A User Perspective Survey for Large Language Model Prompting

arXiv:2608. 07494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), allow users to obtain instant and effective content responses simply by typing requests, such as ``plan a three-day Vienna trip'', ``solve the attached mathematical problem'', ``draft an email to inquire review progress'', etc.

By Yiqun Zhang, Yunfan Zhang, Mingjie Zhao, Sen Feng, Yiu-ming Cheung
arXiv AI
Sep 4

A Prompt-Engineering Approach to Develop Scalable, Flexible, and Real-Time Hybrid Micro-Level Personalization in a General Purpose AI Teaching Assistant

The paper introduces a prompt‑engineering framework that personalizes large language model (LLM) teaching assistants across disciplines by tailoring responses to six learner‑specific dimensions, creating 96 distinct learner profiles. It also analyzes student queries through Bloom’s Taxonomy to gauge cognitive complexity, encoding both learner attributes and cognitive assessments into structured prompts that condition the LLM without retraining. Experiments using NLP metrics and a small human study demonstrate that this approach yields perceptible differences in response style and structure, with statistical evidence linking specific learner attributes to measurable changes.

By Saptarshi Basu, Sandeep Kakar, Ashok Goel
arXiv AI
Sep 24

Evaluating Feedback Focus and Pedagogical Adaptivity in LLM-Generated Feedback on Student Writing

The paper examines whether state‑of‑the‑art large language models (LLMs) produce feedback that aligns with expert teachers’ pedagogical practices, focusing on feedback type and adaptivity. Using a refined taxonomy of seven feedback focus types, the authors annotate and compare teacher and LLM‑generated feedback from three university writing courses, creating the FeedType benchmark. Their analysis shows that while most LLMs cover many feedback types, they do not match teachers’ distribution patterns or adaptive behavior across draft stages and student performance levels.

By Norah Almousa, Shayan Peyghambari Oskoui, Raquel Coelho, Gayle Rogers, Xiang Lorraine Li, Diane Litman