pedagogical adaptivity

A writing instructor and two university learners compare successive annotated paragraph drafts on a large seminar table, with a restrained visual link between changing revision priorities

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Conference paper: FeedType tests whether AI feedback changes its focus as student writing develops

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

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Full Papers

FeedType compares feedback focus across university writing courses, six language models and three prompting strategies. Models covered many feedback categories, but their distributions and adaptations did not fully match teachers. The study offers a benchmark for inspecting feedback behaviour, rather than evidence of improved student writing.

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Conference paper: FeedType tests whether AI feedback changes its focus as student writing develops