How K-12 Educators Use AI: LLM-Assisted Qualitative Analysis at Scale
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| author | Liu, Alex Esbenshade, Lief Sarkar, Shawon Tian, Victor Zhang, Zachary He, Kevin Sun, Min |
| author_facet | Liu, Alex Esbenshade, Lief Sarkar, Shawon Tian, Victor Zhang, Zachary He, Kevin Sun, Min |
| contents | This study investigates how K-12 educators use generative AI tools in real-world instructional contexts and how large language models (LLMs) can support scalable qualitative analysis of these interactions. Drawing on over 13,000 unscripted educator-AI conversations from an open-access platform, we examine educators' use of AI for lesson planning, differentiation, assessment, and pedagogical reflection. Methodologically, we introduce a replicable, LLM-assisted qualitative analysis pipeline that supports inductive theme discovery, codebook development, and large-scale annotation while preserving researcher control over conceptual synthesis. Empirically, the findings surface concrete patterns in how educators prompt, adapt, and evaluate AI-generated suggestions as part of their instructional reasoning. This work demonstrates the feasibility of combining LLM support with qualitative rigor to analyze complex educator behaviors at scale and inform the design of AI-powered educational tools. |
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| spellingShingle | How K-12 Educators Use AI: LLM-Assisted Qualitative Analysis at Scale Liu, Alex Esbenshade, Lief Sarkar, Shawon Tian, Victor Zhang, Zachary He, Kevin Sun, Min Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence This study investigates how K-12 educators use generative AI tools in real-world instructional contexts and how large language models (LLMs) can support scalable qualitative analysis of these interactions. Drawing on over 13,000 unscripted educator-AI conversations from an open-access platform, we examine educators' use of AI for lesson planning, differentiation, assessment, and pedagogical reflection. Methodologically, we introduce a replicable, LLM-assisted qualitative analysis pipeline that supports inductive theme discovery, codebook development, and large-scale annotation while preserving researcher control over conceptual synthesis. Empirically, the findings surface concrete patterns in how educators prompt, adapt, and evaluate AI-generated suggestions as part of their instructional reasoning. This work demonstrates the feasibility of combining LLM support with qualitative rigor to analyze complex educator behaviors at scale and inform the design of AI-powered educational tools. |
| title | How K-12 Educators Use AI: LLM-Assisted Qualitative Analysis at Scale |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17985 |