How Well Can LLMs Simulate Real Learner Evaluations of Educational Feedback?

arXiv:2609.35376 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Generative AI — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actionability — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Personalization — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Mean Absolute Error — 1× in this paper
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

Sources

• Qwen3-VL Technical Report
• A Systematic Analysis of the Impact of Persona Steering on LLM Capabilities
• Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
• Investigating Learner-Aware Design of LLM-Generated Educational Feedback
• Personalized RewardBench: Evaluating Reward Models with Human Aligned Personalization
• Dean of LLM Tutors: A Framework for Automated Quality Review of AI-generated Feedback
• OpenAI GPT-5 System Card
• Gemma 4 Technical Report
• Automatic Generation of Question Hints for Mathematics Problems using Large Language Models in Educational Technology
• Simulating LLM-to-LLM Tutoring for Multilingual Math Feedback
• EduPersona: Benchmarking Subjective Ability Boundaries of Virtual Student Agents

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