Dr.Academy: A Benchmark for Evaluating Questioning Capability in Education for Large Language Models

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Autori principali: Chen, Yuyan, Wu, Chenwei, Yan, Songzhou, Liu, Panjun, Zhou, Haoyu, Xiao, Yanghua
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author Chen, Yuyan
Wu, Chenwei
Yan, Songzhou
Liu, Panjun
Zhou, Haoyu
Xiao, Yanghua
author_facet Chen, Yuyan
Wu, Chenwei
Yan, Songzhou
Liu, Panjun
Zhou, Haoyu
Xiao, Yanghua
contents Teachers are important to imparting knowledge and guiding learners, and the role of large language models (LLMs) as potential educators is emerging as an important area of study. Recognizing LLMs' capability to generate educational content can lead to advances in automated and personalized learning. While LLMs have been tested for their comprehension and problem-solving skills, their capability in teaching remains largely unexplored. In teaching, questioning is a key skill that guides students to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize core concepts and principles. Therefore, our research introduces a benchmark to evaluate the questioning capability in education as a teacher of LLMs through evaluating their generated educational questions, utilizing Anderson and Krathwohl's taxonomy across general, monodisciplinary, and interdisciplinary domains. We shift the focus from LLMs as learners to LLMs as educators, assessing their teaching capability through guiding them to generate questions. We apply four metrics, including relevance, coverage, representativeness, and consistency, to evaluate the educational quality of LLMs' outputs. Our results indicate that GPT-4 demonstrates significant potential in teaching general, humanities, and science courses; Claude2 appears more apt as an interdisciplinary teacher. Furthermore, the automatic scores align with human perspectives.
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spellingShingle Dr.Academy: A Benchmark for Evaluating Questioning Capability in Education for Large Language Models
Chen, Yuyan
Wu, Chenwei
Yan, Songzhou
Liu, Panjun
Zhou, Haoyu
Xiao, Yanghua
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
Teachers are important to imparting knowledge and guiding learners, and the role of large language models (LLMs) as potential educators is emerging as an important area of study. Recognizing LLMs' capability to generate educational content can lead to advances in automated and personalized learning. While LLMs have been tested for their comprehension and problem-solving skills, their capability in teaching remains largely unexplored. In teaching, questioning is a key skill that guides students to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize core concepts and principles. Therefore, our research introduces a benchmark to evaluate the questioning capability in education as a teacher of LLMs through evaluating their generated educational questions, utilizing Anderson and Krathwohl's taxonomy across general, monodisciplinary, and interdisciplinary domains. We shift the focus from LLMs as learners to LLMs as educators, assessing their teaching capability through guiding them to generate questions. We apply four metrics, including relevance, coverage, representativeness, and consistency, to evaluate the educational quality of LLMs' outputs. Our results indicate that GPT-4 demonstrates significant potential in teaching general, humanities, and science courses; Claude2 appears more apt as an interdisciplinary teacher. Furthermore, the automatic scores align with human perspectives.
title Dr.Academy: A Benchmark for Evaluating Questioning Capability in Education for Large Language Models
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10947