Hint-based prompts raise ChatGPT scoring agreement with human experts to 98–100%, while no-hint prompts are unstable (Q2 precision 0.42)¶
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q3 i? Under the hint condition, agreement of 98% or higher was achieved for all questions, with perfect agreement (100%) for Q1 and Q2; under the no-hint condition results varied, with Q2 precision only 0.42. → Satoshi Takahashi 2026
q3 i? When ChatGPT scored its own generated problem, perfect agreement was observed (Fleiss' κ = 1.00 for Q1 and Q2). → Satoshi Takahashi 2026 (2)
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Satoshi Takahashi 2026¶
Satoshi Takahashi, Atsushi Yoshikawa, Megumi Kose, Kenichi Suzuki, Chieko Inoue, Yumi Watanabe, and Mari Sawada. (2026). Automating Constructive Assessment with Large Language Models: Toward Scalable and Repeated Evaluation of Practical Competence. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25790 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.25790
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Experiment 2 compared two prompt conditions (no-hints vs. hints with human-scored examples) on descriptive answers to the ChatGPT-generated problem; scoring was repeated nine times with majority vote and evaluated with accuracy, precision, recall, and F1.
"By contrast, under the hint condition, an agreement of 98% or higher was achieved for all questions, with perfect agreement (100%) recorded for Q1 and Q2."
Satoshi Takahashi 2026 (2)¶
Satoshi Takahashi, Atsushi Yoshikawa, Megumi Kose, Kenichi Suzuki, Chieko Inoue, Yumi Watanabe, and Mari Sawada. (2026). Automating Constructive Assessment with Large Language Models: Toward Scalable and Repeated Evaluation of Practical Competence. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25790
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Experiment 1 agreement analysis (Table 4): 9-ChatGPT agreement on the ChatGPT-generated problem reached 100.00% for Q1 and Q2 and 97.67% for Q3, with Fleiss' κ of 1.00, 1.00, and 0.97.
"Furthermore, when ChatGPT itself scored the ChatGPT-generated problem, perfect agreement was observed, confirming even higher consistency."
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Hint-based prompts raise ChatGPT scoring agreement with human experts to 98–100%, while no-hint prompts are unstable (Q2 precision 0.42) |
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Hint-based prompts raise ChatGPT scoring agreement with human experts to 98–100%, while no-hint prompts are unstable (Q2 precision 0.42) |
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