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20232026
most citedFrom Voices to Validity: Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for Textual Analysis of Policy Stakeholder Interviews

8 citations · 10 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.HC2026

Agreement Is Not Quality: Blind Expert Verification of Human and LLM Qualitative Coding When Human Consensus Is Not Ground Truth

Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade, Michael Xiao +4

Evaluations of LLM-assisted qualitative coding almost universally measure model performance as agreement with human coders, a practice that presumes human coding is the standard to…

cs.HC2026

Human-LLM Collaborative Inductive Coding for Conceptualizing K-12 Educator AI Use

Alex Liu, Min Sun, Lief Esbenshade +4

Qualitative researchers increasingly encounter interaction corpora whose scale exceeds what manual coding alone can address, and large language models (LLMs) are frequently propose…

cs.CY2026

Creating and Evaluating K-12 GenAI Assessment Graders Through Context Engineering

Zewei Tian, Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade +6

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into educational assessment represents a transformative shift in classroom grading practices. While automated scoring systems and ma…

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★ 1 cited

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…

cs.HC2025

Adapting to Educate: Conversational AI's Role in Mathematics Education Across Different Educational Contexts

Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade, Min Sun +4

As educational settings increasingly integrate artificial intelligence (AI), understanding how AI tools identify -- and adapt their responses to -- varied educational contexts beco…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Enhancing Instructional Quality: Leveraging Computer-Assisted Textual Analysis to Generate In-Depth Insights from Educational Artifacts

Zewei Tian, Min Sun, Alex Liu +2

This paper explores the transformative potential of computer-assisted textual analysis in enhancing instructional quality through in-depth insights from educational artifacts. We i…

cs.HC2023★ 8 cited

From Voices to Validity: Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for Textual Analysis of Policy Stakeholder Interviews

Alex Liu, Min Sun

Obtaining stakeholders' diverse experiences and opinions about current policy in a timely manner is crucial for policymakers to identify strengths and gaps in resource allocation,…