Teachers adapt feedback focus across draft stages in five types while the best model shows significant changes in only three¶

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q2 i? In the composition course, the teacher shows significant feedback focus changes across draft stages in five types (Task Constraints, Elaboration, Clarification, Mistakes, Praise), while the closest model, Mistral-24B, shows significant changes in only three, and some models show none. → Norah Almousa 2026

Evidence¶

Norah Almousa 2026¶

Norah Almousa, Shayan Peyghambari Oskoui, Raquel Coelho, Gayle Rogers, Xiang Lorraine Li, Diane Litman. (2026). Evaluating Feedback Focus and Pedagogical Adaptivity in LLM-Generated Feedback on Student Writing. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28026 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.28026

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Fisher's Exact Test analysis of feedback focus type distributions across initial, revision, and final drafts in the composition course under zero-shot prompting. The teacher shows significant changes in five types across both stages; Mistral-24B shows the closest pattern with three types, while Mistral-7B and Qwen-70B show no significant changes.

"Table 5 presents zero-shot results, and shows that the teacher demonstrates clear feedback adaptiv- ity across draft stages, with significant changes in five feedback focus types: Task Constraints, Elabo- ration, Clarification, Mistakes, and Praise, across both stages, from initial to revision and from revi- sion to final."

Discussion¶

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