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Conference Paper 34

A Large Scale Randomized Control Trial Showing LLM Generated Feedback Helps Low-Knowledge Middle School Math Students with Short-Term Learning

Eamon Worden, Luca Dang, Wen-Chiang Ivan Lim, Sarah Miller, Jiayi Zhang, Aaron Haim, Adam Sales, Ashish Gurung, Neil Heffernan

ACM Learning @ Scale

Two large randomized trials in ASSISTments found that concise, misconception-targeted LLM feedback improved immediate correction and short-term transfer over correctness-only feedback, with the transfer benefit concentrated among lower-knowledge seventh-grade mathematics students.

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A Large Scale Randomized Control Trial Showing LLM Generated Feedback Helps Low-Knowledge Middle School Math Students with Short-Term Learning

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