collaborators

7 papers

cs.HC2026

Teacher-Authored Prompts for Configuring Student-AI Dialogue: K-12 Classroom Implementation

Alex Liu, Min Sun, Lief Esbenshade +3

GenAI has rapidly entered instructional and learning settings as a teaching assistant or AI tutor. However, less is known about how pedagogical intent connects to the learning gene…

cs.HC2025

AI as a Teaching Partner: Early Lessons from Classroom Codesign with Secondary Teachers

Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade, Shawon Sarkar +6

This report presents a comprehensive account of the Colleague AI Classroom pilot, a collaborative design (co-design) study that brought generative AI technology directly into real…

cs.HC2025

Emerging Patterns of GenAI Use in K-12 Science and Mathematics Education

Lief Esbenshade, Shawon Sarkar, Drew Nucci +10

In this report, we share findings from a nationally representative survey of US public school math and science teachers, examining current generative AI (GenAI) use, perceptions, c…

cs.HC2025

How K-12 Educators Use AI: LLM-Assisted Qualitative Analysis at Scale

Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade, Shawon Sarkar +4

This study investigates how K-12 educators use generative AI tools in real-world instructional contexts and how large language models (LLMs) can support scalable qualitative analys…

cs.HC2025

Implementation Considerations for Automated AI Grading of Student Work

Zewei Tian, Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade +4

This study explores the classroom implementation of an AI-powered grading platform in K-12 settings through a co-design pilot with 19 teachers. We combine platform usage logs, surv…

cs.CY2025

Connecting Feedback to Choice: Understanding Educator Preferences in GenAI vs. Human-Created Lesson Plans in K-12 Education -- A Comparative Analysis

Shawon Sarkar, Min Sun, Alex Liu +4

As generative AI (GenAI) models are increasingly explored for educational applications, understanding educator preferences for AI-generated lesson plans is critical for their effec…