Who's the Best Detective? LLMs vs. MLs in Detecting Incoherent Fourth Grade Math Answers

Understand

Written answers to open-ended questions can have a higher long-term effect on learning than multiple-choice questions.

• However, it is critical that teachers immediately review the answers, and ask to redo those that are incoherent.
• This can be a difficult task and can be time-consuming for teachers.
• A possible solution is to automate the detection of incoherent answers.