Feedback givers agree on exact urgency tiers only about a fifth of the time, with most disagreements off by a single tier¶
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q2 i? Among overlapping pairs where both feedback givers assigned an urgency rank, exact agreement reached only 38.5%, with a mean absolute rank difference of 0.79; across all pairs, models agreed on the exact tier most often (22.2%). → Yijun Liu 2026
Evidence¶
Yijun Liu 2026¶
Yijun Liu, Yifan Song, John Gallagher, Sarah Sterman, Tal August. (2026). FOXGLOVE: Understanding Goal-Oriented and Anchored Writing Feedback from Experts and LLMs on Argumentative Essays. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06271 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.06271
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Urgency-ranking agreement analysis in FOXGLOVE (§4.1). Among all pairs, models agreed on the exact tier most often (22.2%), but instructors were more likely to both assign a rank at all (57.3% vs. 51.4% for M-M).
"Among overlapping pairs where both feedback givers assigned an urgency rank, exact agreement reached only 38.5%, with most disagreements off by a single tier (mean |∆rank|= 0.79 )."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- LLMs and instructors agree broadly on where feedback belongs but diverge on exact sentence spans, with span overlap strongly goal-dependent and LLMs highlighting more of each essay — related
- Human-LLM agreement on a complex multi-label codebook falls well below human-human agreement, while LLM-LLM agreement is comparable to human-human agreement — related
- Human and agent framework revisions concentrate on the mid-level engagement categories (Levels 3–5), indicating greater ambiguity there than at scale endpoints — related
- The LLM judge agrees with human annotators at 87.7% (κ = 0.842) on consensus pairs, but severity-rating agreement is uneven and medium-tier boundaries are uncertain — related
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Feedback givers agree on exact urgency tiers only about a fifth of the time, with most disagreements off by a single tier |
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Feedback givers agree on exact urgency tiers only about a fifth of the time, with most disagreements off by a single tier |
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