3 papers
cs.CY2026
DrawSim-PD: Simulating Student Science Drawings to Support NGSS-Aligned Teacher Diagnostic Reasoning
Arijit Chakma, Peng He, Honglu Liu +4
Developing expertise in diagnostic reasoning requires practice with diverse student artifacts, yet privacy regulations prohibit sharing authentic student work for teacher professio…
cs.CY2025
Learning Progression-Guided AI Evaluation of Scientific Models To Support Diverse Multi-Modal Understanding in NGSS Classroom
Leonora Kaldaras, Tingting Li, Prudence Djagba +2
Learning Progressions (LPs) can help adjust instruction to individual learners needs if the LPs reflect diverse ways of thinking about a construct being measured, and if the LP-ali…
cs.CL2025
Enhancing LLM-Based Short Answer Grading with Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Yucheng Chu, Peng He, Hang Li +6
Short answer assessment is a vital component of science education, allowing evaluation of students' complex three-dimensional understanding. Large language models (LLMs) that posse…