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Retaining learner engagement is a major challenge in online learning environments, which is even more intensified with learning spaces increasingly built by combining resources from multiple independent sources. Narrative-centric learning experience has been found to improve learner engagement by several researchers. Towards this end, we propose an AI-based approach that generates auxiliary learning content called narrative fragments which are interspersed into the learning pathways to create interactive learning narratives. The proposed approach consists of the automatic generation of two types of narrative fragments– overviews of the learning pathway segments and reflection...

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In the realm of education, crafting appropriate questions for examinations is a meticulous and time-consuming task that is crucial for assessing students' understanding of the subject matter. This paper explores the potential of leveraging large language models (LLMs) to automate question generation in the educational domain. Specifically, we focus on generating educational questions from contexts extracted from school-level textbooks. Our study aims to prompt LLMs such as GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-3.5 Turbo, Llama-2-70B, Llama-3.1-405B, and Gemini Pro to generate a complete set of questions for each context, potentially streamlining the question generation process for educators. We performed a...

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This paper explores the potential of large language models, specifically ChatGPT, to reframe problems from probability theory and statistics, making them accessible to students across diverse academic fields including biology, economics, law, and engineering. The aim of this study is to enhance interdisciplinary learning by rendering complex concepts more accessible, relevant, and engaging. We conducted a pilot study using ChatGPT to adapt problems across 17 disciplines, evaluated through expert review. Our results demonstrate the significant potential of ChatGPT in reshaping problems for diverse settings, preserving theoretical meaning in 77.1% of cases, and requiring no or only minor...

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Recent advances in large language models (LLMs), notably GPT models, have introduced new possibilities for automatic item generation (AIG) through prompt engineering. Although iterative prompt refinement can yield measurable improvements, this process eventually plateaus, as outputs remain inconsistent or misaligned with assessment constructs. This study reports an experimental comparison of prompting and fine-tuning to advance AIG for L2 listening assessment. First, we employed prompting and refined the instruction design over three successive iterations to determine an optimized prompt. We then fine-tuned GPT-4.1 using the same optimized prompt, holding prompt design constant to isolate...

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The educational application of Generative AI (GAI) has garnered significant interest, sparking discussions about the pedagogical value of GAI-generated content. This study investigates the perceived effectiveness of concept explanations produced by GAI compared to those created by human teachers, focusing on programming concepts of sequence, selection, and iteration. The research also explores teachers' and students' ability to discern the source of these explanations. Participants included 11 teachers and 70 sixth-grade students who were presented with concept explanations created or generated by teachers and ChatGPT. They were asked to evaluate the helpfulness of the explanations and...

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Es habitual que el estudio de la gramática y del léxico se observen como dos ramas lingüísticas diferentes. No obstante, las investigaciones sobre los bloques léxicos y, en especial, las colocaciones muestran que la gramática y el léxico no deben verse como elementos completamente separados. Entender esta unión entre la gramática y el léxico es crucial para el profesorado y los creadores de materiales de español como L2, que pueden encontrar en la enseñanza de colocaciones un apoyo rentable para que el alumnado alcance una competencia lingüística y una fluidez elevadas. Al considerar las colocaciones como unidades complejas que, sin embargo, cognitivamente se tratan como palabras únicas,...

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Background: Peer influence is a significant determinant in shaping students' academic performance, yet it is often overlooked in traditional educational strategies. The ability to analyze peer influence and collaboration is an important piece in personalizing student educational experiences. Objective: This study aims to investigate how peer interactions can be used to predict students' achievement levels and create clusters based on these predictions. Building on these clusters, a novel AI-driven approach is introduced to personalize the learning experiences for each group, providing content aligned with students' predicted achievement levels and ensuring that students receive the right...

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To address the complexity and high costs of developing listening tests for test-takers of varying proficiency levels, this study investigates the capabilities of an OpenAI's large language model, ChatGPT 4, in developing listening assessments. Employing prompt engineering and fine-tuning of prompts, the study specifically focuses on creating listening scripts and test items using ChatGPT 4 for test-takers across a spectrum of proficiency levels (academic, low, intermediate, and advanced). For comparability, the 24 topics of these scripts were selected from topics found in academic listening tests. We conducted two types of analyses to evaluate the quality of the output. First, we performed...

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Integrating mathematical modelling into school curricula is essential for connecting school mathematics with real-world applications. However, teachers often lack the time and resources to design high-quality modelling tasks. While generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can rapidly produce educational content, existing tools typically generate conventional word problems or routine mathematics exercises rather than resources that foster modelling competencies. This study reports on the design and evaluation of an AI-powered platform that generates mathematical modelling problems and associated pedagogical recommendations grounded in established design principles and retrieval-augmented...

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Not much is known about how LLM-generated questions compare to gold-standard, traditional formative assessments concerning their difficulty and discrimination parameters, which are valued properties in the psychometric measurement field. We follow a rigorous measurement methodology to compare a set of ChatGPT-generated questions, produced from one lesson summary in a textbook, to existing questions from a published Creative Commons textbook. To do this, we collected and analyzed responses from 207 test respondents who answered questions from both item pools and used a linking methodology to compare IRT properties between the two pools. We find that neither the difficulty nor discrimination...

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