Prompting strategies produce distinct directional bias profiles: Fs+CoT under-scores (bias = -1.730), RAG over-scores (bias = 1.787), and SC shows minimal directional bias (bias = -0.083)¶
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q2 i? Systematic bias differed by strategy: Fs+CoT was relatively severe, RAG relatively lenient, and SC closest to teacher mean scores in overall score location with minimal directional bias. → Baicheng Lin 2026
Evidence¶
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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Bias analysis across the 300 responses (Results section 4.4, Table 5): Fs+CoT total bias -1.730 with 77.3% under-scoring; RAG total bias 1.787 with 73.7% over-scoring; SC total bias -0.083 with bootstrap CIs including zero in all four dimensions.
"Fs+CoT under-scored relative to teacher mean scores (bias = -1.730), RAG over-scored (bias = 1.787), and SC showed minimal directional bias (bias = -0.083)."
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Related Claims¶
- Under single-pass deployment, Fs+CoT prompting yields the strongest agreement with teacher mean scores for music-analysis essay scoring (r = 0.795, ICC (2,1) = 0.657) — related
- Median aggregation across three runs produces only minor changes in agreement and does not alter the ordering of prompting strategies — related
- RAG prompting shows systematic leniency, over-scoring relative to teacher mean scores in all four rubric dimensions (total bias = 1.787) — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Self-Consistency is the most reproducible strategy across repeated runs yet shows weaker agreement with teacher mean scores (ICC (2,1) = 0.537) — related
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Prompting strategies produce distinct directional bias profiles: Fs+CoT under-scores (bias = -1.730), RAG over-scores (bias = 1.787), and SC shows minimal directional bias (bias = -0.083) |
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Prompting strategies produce distinct directional bias profiles: Fs+CoT under-scores (bias = -1.730), RAG over-scores (bias = 1.787), and SC shows minimal directional bias (bias = -0.083) |
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