arXiv Machine Learning

Elmes*: Automated Construction of Fine-Grained Evaluation Rubrics for Large Language Models in Long-Tail Educational Scenarios

arXiv:2606. 06546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating large language models (LLMs) for education requires measuring how models teach, not only what they know.

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 5

EduClaw-Bench: A Long-Horizon Benchmark for Pedagogical LLM Agents with Simulated Learners

arXiv:2608. 03206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) power educational applications from tutoring to essay scoring, but each is a point solution to a single task, and only recently have these point solutions been integrated into agents operating over a learning management system (LMS).

By Unggi Lee, Sookbun Lee, Yeil Jeong, Eunjoo Lee, Minchul Shin, Hoilym Kwon
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Ask, Don't Judge: Binary Questions for Interpretable LLM Evaluation and Self-Improvement

arXiv:2606. 27226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating LLM outputs remains a major bottleneck in NLP: human evaluation is expensive and slow, lexical metrics correlate poorly with human judgments on open-ended generation, and holistic LLM judges often produce opaque scores that are hard to debug.

By Sangwoo Cho, Kushal Chawla, Pengshan Cai, Zefang Liu, Chenyang Zhu, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Sambit Sahu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

QEDBENCH: Quantifying the Alignment Gap in Automated Evaluation of University-Level Mathematical Proofs

arXiv:2602. 20629v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) saturate elementary benchmarks, the research frontier has shifted from generation to the reliability of automated evaluation.

By Santiago Gonzalez, Alireza Amiri Bavandpour, Peter Ye, Edward Zhang, Ruslans Aleksejevs, Todor Anti\'c, Polina Baron, Sujeet Bhalerao, Shubhrajit Bhattacharya, Zachary Burton, John Byrne, Hyungjun Choi, Nujhat Ahmed Disha, Koppany Istv\'an Encz, Yuchen Fang, Robert Joseph George, Ebrahim Ghorbani, Alan Goldfarb, Jing Guo, Meghal Gupta, Stefano Huber, Annika Kanckos, Minjung Kang, Hyun Jong Kim, Dino Lorenzini, Levi Lorenzo, Tianyi Mao, Giovanni Marzenta, Ariane M. Masuda, Lukas Mauth, Ana Mickovic, Andres Miniguano-Trujillo, Antoine Moulin, Wenqi Ni, Tomos Parry, Kevin Ren, Hossein Roodbarani, Mathieu Rundstr\"om, Manjil Saikia, Detchat Samart, Rebecca Steiner, Connor Stewart, Dhara Thakkar, Jeffrey Tse, Vasiliki Velona, Yunhai Xiang, Sibel Yal\c{c}{\i}n, Jun Yan, Ji Zeng, Arman Cohan, Quanquan C. Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Evaluating Large Language Models for automatic analysis of teacher simulations

The paper evaluates Large Language Models for automatically analyzing responses in digital teacher simulations. Experiments compare DeBERTaV3 and Llama 3 across zero‑shot, few‑shot, and fine‑tuning settings, revealing that performance varies by characteristic and that Llama 3 consistently outperforms DeBERTaV3, especially when new characteristics must be identified. The findings suggest Llama 3 is preferable for dynamic simulation environments where teacher educators introduce new evaluation criteria.

By David de-Fitero-Dominguez, Mariano Albaladejo-Gonz\'alez, Antonio Garcia-Cabot, Eva Garcia-Lopez, Antonio Moreno-Cediel, Erin Barno, Justin Reich