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7 papers

cs.CY2026

Positioning Generative Artificial Intelligence in STEM Assessment: When to Require, Scaffold, or Restrict Its Use

Yizhu Gao, Zhongzhou Chen, Min Li +1

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) presents a governance challenge for STEM assessment. Unrestricted access can enable task outsourcing that undermines the validity of trad…

cs.CY2026

Generative AI as a Design Variable: An Evidence-Centered Framework for Principled Governance in STEM Assessment

Yizhu Gao, Zhongzhou Chen, Min Li +1

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) presents a governance challenge for STEM assessment. Unrestricted GenAI access enables task outsourcing that undermines the validity of t…

cs.AI2026

ArguAgent: AI-Supported Real-Time Grouping for Productive Argumentation in STEM Classrooms

Jennifer Kleiman, Yizhu Gao, Xin Xia +4

Argumentation is a core practice in STEM education, but its productivity depends on who participates and how they interact. Higher-achieving students often dominate the talk and de…

cs.CY2026

A Framework for Human-AI Q-Matrix Refinement: A NeuralCDM Evaluation

Ying Zhang, Ningxi Cheng, Yizhu Gao +5

Q-matrices are a cornerstone of theory-driven assessment and learning analytics, making item demands and students' underlying knowledge components and misconceptions explicit and a…

cs.CY2024

Can OpenAI o1 outperform humans in higher-order cognitive thinking?

Ehsan Latif, Yifan Zhou, Shuchen Guo +6

This study evaluates the performance of OpenAI's o1-preview model in higher-order cognitive domains, including critical thinking, systematic thinking, computational thinking, data…

cs.CL2024

Foundation Models for Low-Resource Language Education (Vision Paper)

Zhaojun Ding, Zhengliang Liu, Hanqi Jiang +4

Recent studies show that large language models (LLMs) are powerful tools for working with natural language, bringing advances in many areas of computational linguistics. However, t…