A Chain-of-Thought Prompting Approach with LLMs for Evaluating Students' Formative Assessment Responses in Science
This paper develops a chain-of-thought prompting approach using GPT-4 to automatically score and generate explanations for middle school Earth Science formative assessment responses, employing human-in-the-loop few-shot and active learning methods. The system evaluates open-ended short-answer responses and provides meaningful feedback to support student learning.
This paper explores the use of large language models (LLMs) to score and explain short-answer assessments in K-12 science. While existing methods can score more structured math and computer science assessments, they often do not provide explanations for the scores. Our study focuses on employing GPT-4 for automated assessment in middle school Earth Science, combining few-shot and active learning with chain-of-thought reasoning. Using a human-in-the-loop approach, we successfully score and provid