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13 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.CL2026

Improving the Distributional Alignment of LLMs using Supervision

Gauri Kambhatla, Sanjana Gautam, Angela Zhang +4

The ability to accurately align LLMs with diverse population groups on subjective questions would have great value. In this work, we show that adding simple supervision can more co…

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

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…