Students showed no statistically significant apprehension about trusting automated feedback validity, and favoured granular automated marginalia over generalised human feedback¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? An independent samples t-test on Trust in Automated Feedback Validity showed no statistically significant apprehension; students explicitly favoured the objective, granular marginalia over conventional human remarks. → Matey Yordanov 2026

Evidence¶

Matey Yordanov 2026¶

Matey Yordanov, Mikhail Bychkov, and Andrei Kuchma. (2026). The Effect of High-Frequency, Automatically-marked Formative Assessments on Student Outcomes in A-Level Sciences. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23566 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.23566

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Post-intervention survey in the quasi-experiment; the trust construct was a composite mean of 5-point Likert items. The article reports no significant apprehension and that students "explicit favoured the objective, granular marginalia" over remarks such as "Good effort"; no effect size is printed, so equivalence was not tested.

"An independent samples t-test assessing “Trust in Automated Feedback Validity“ showed no statistically significant apprehension."

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