LLM scoring performance is dimension-specific: Reasoning shows the strongest agreement and Terminology the weakest across all three strategies¶
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q2 i? Across all three prompting strategies, Reasoning generally showed the strongest agreement with teacher mean scores while Terminology showed the lowest agreement. → Baicheng Lin 2026
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Baicheng Lin 2026¶
Baicheng Lin, Lingxi Jin, and Kyung-Seok Min. (2026). Comparative Validation of GPT-4o-mini and Teacher Mean Scores for Automated Scoring of Music Analysis Responses: Single-Pass Deployment, Repeatability, and Strategy-Specific Bias. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01783 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.01783
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Dimension-level analysis in Results Table 2 for the 300 responses: e.g., Fs+CoT Reasoning ICC (2,1) = 0.802 versus Terminology ICC (2,1) = 0.661; SC Terminology ICC (2,1) = 0.458. The article concludes scoring performance "was dimension-specific rather than uniform across the rubric."
"Across all three prompting strategies, Reasoning generally showed the strongest agreement with teacher mean scores. Terminology showed the lowest agreement for all three strategies."
Discussion¶
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LLM scoring performance is dimension-specific: Reasoning shows the strongest agreement and Terminology the weakest across all three strategies |
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LLM scoring performance is dimension-specific: Reasoning shows the strongest agreement and Terminology the weakest across all three strategies |
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