2 papers
cs.AI2026
Automated item evaluation: Predicting item acceptance and rejection using LLM-generated critiques
Hotaka Maeda, Yikai Lu
Automated item evaluation (AIE) refers to the use of computational methods to assess item quality without requiring manual expert review or field testing of the items under evaluat…
cs.CL2025
Finding Words Associated with DIF: Predicting Differential Item Functioning using LLMs and Explainable AI
Hotaka Maeda, Yikai Lu
We fine-tuned and compared several encoder-based Transformer large language models (LLM) to predict differential item functioning (DIF) from the item text. We then applied explaina…