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most citedAssessing Confidence in AI-Assisted Grading of Physics Exams through Psychometrics: An Exploratory Study

20 citations · 37 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.ed-ph2026

Testing the Validity of Embedding-Based Similarity and Clustering for Handwritten Physics Solutions

Maike Tauschhuber, Gerd Kortemeyer

Text embeddings are increasingly used in physics education research to organize, compare, and cluster large collections of written text. Their appeal is clear: once student respons…

cs.CY2026

Ed API: Towards a Shared API for Education Microservices

Maximillan Sölch, Alexandra Neagu, Marcus Messer +5

Learning at scale often requires domain-specific automation such as assessment and feedback. An organization locked in to a general learning platform without these specialist autom…

cs.CY2025

Artificial-Intelligence Grading Assistance for Handwritten Components of a Calculus Exam

Gerd Kortemeyer, Alexander Caspar, Daria Horica

We investigate whether contemporary multimodal LLMs can assist with grading open-ended calculus at scale without eroding validity. In a large first-year exam, students' handwritten…

cs.CY2025

Assisting the Grading of a Handwritten General Chemistry Exam with Artificial Intelligence

Jan Cvengros, Gerd Kortemeyer

We explore the effectiveness and reliability of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based grading system for a handwritten general chemistry exam, comparing AI-assigned scores to human…

physics.ed-ph2025★ 4 cited

The Boiling-Frog Problem of Physics Education

Gerd Kortemeyer

It is astonishing how rapidly general-purpose AI has crossed familiar thresholds in introductory physics. Comparing outputs from successive models, GPT-5 Thinking moves far beyond…

physics.ed-ph2025

When AI Evaluates Its Own Work: Validating Learner-Initiated, AI-Generated Physics Practice Problems

Tobias Geisler, Gerd Kortemeyer

Large language models (LLMs) can now generate physics practice problems in real time, yet the educational value of these items hinges on rapid, reliable post-generation vetting. In…

physics.ed-ph2024★ 20 cited

Assessing Confidence in AI-Assisted Grading of Physics Exams through Psychometrics: An Exploratory Study

Gerd Kortemeyer, Julian Nöhl

This study explores the use of artificial intelligence in grading high-stakes physics exams, emphasizing the application of psychometric methods, particularly Item Response Theory…

math.HO2024★ 6 cited

AI-assisted Automated Short Answer Grading of Handwritten University Level Mathematics Exams

Tianyi Liu, Julia Chatain, Laura Kobel-Keller +3

Effective and timely feedback in educational assessments is essential but labor-intensive, especially for complex tasks. Recent developments in automated feedback systems, ranging…

physics.ed-ph2024★ 2 cited

Grading Assistance for a Handwritten Thermodynamics Exam using Artificial Intelligence: An Exploratory Study

Gerd Kortemeyer, Julian Nöhl, Daria Onishchuk

Using a high-stakes thermodynamics exam as sample (252~students, four multipart problems), we investigate the viability of four workflows for AI-assisted grading of handwritten stu…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Performance of the Pre-Trained Large Language Model GPT-4 on Automated Short Answer Grading

Gerd Kortemeyer

Automated Short Answer Grading (ASAG) has been an active area of machine-learning research for over a decade. It promises to let educators grade and give feedback on free-form resp…