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Cross-Dataset Bloom Question Classification: Supervised Models and Prompted LLMs

arXiv:2606. 13684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic Bloom's taxonomy classification of assessment questions can substantially reduce instructor workload, but labeling is subjective and teacher-dependent.

arXiv AI
Sep 24

Evaluation of pre-trained models for pedagogical assessment of novel AI-assisted educational questions

The study evaluates how well pre‑trained models can classify the Bloom level of AI‑generated educational questions, a task that is crucial for ensuring pedagogical quality. Traditional machine‑learning models perform poorly on out‑of‑distribution data, whereas transformer and large‑language models achieve higher accuracy, especially after feature‑engineering techniques such as text splicing and appending learning objectives. Retraining the models yields the most significant performance gains across all datasets.

By Michael Lawrence Castanares, Princess Ventures, Allan Tan
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
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