Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude scores are largely independent across frontier LLMs, with Knowledge–Skills correlation r=−0.51 and Knowledge–Attitude r=−0.63¶
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q2 i? Across seven evaluated models, Knowledge correlates negatively with Skills (r=−0.51) and with Attitude (r=−0.63), while Skills and Attitude correlate weakly positively (r=0.22). → Unggi Lee 2026
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Unggi Lee 2026¶
Unggi Lee, Sookbun Lee, Heungsoo Choi, Jinseo Lee, Haeun Park, Younghoon Jeon, Sungmin Cho, Minju Kang, Junbo Koh, Jiyeong Bae, Minwoo Nam, Juyeon Eun, Yeonji Jung, Yeil Jeong. (2026). OpenLearnLM Benchmark: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Knowledge, Skill, and Attitude in Educational Large Language Models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13882 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2601.13882
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Correlation analysis across ten evaluation dimensions over seven frontier models (Pearson r across 7 models, Figure 6c). The article reports "r=−0.51" between Knowledge and Skills, r=−0.63 between Knowledge and Attitude, and r=0.22 between Skills and Attitude; no significance tests are printed.
"The cor- relation between Knowledge (average of Content and Peda- gogy) and Skills (average of six centers) isr=−0.51, indi- cating that models strong in factual knowledge do not neces- sarily excel in practical educational tasks."
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Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude scores are largely independent across frontier LLMs, with Knowledge–Skills correlation r=−0.51 and Knowledge–Attitude r=−0.63 |
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Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude scores are largely independent across frontier LLMs, with Knowledge–Skills correlation r=−0.51 and Knowledge–Attitude r=−0.63 |
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