Classroom AI: Large Language Models as Grade-Specific Teachers
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| author | Oh, Jio Whang, Steven Euijong Evans, James Wang, Jindong |
| author_facet | Oh, Jio Whang, Steven Euijong Evans, James Wang, Jindong |
| contents | Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising solution to complement traditional teaching and address global teacher shortages that affect hundreds of millions of children, but they fail to provide grade-appropriate responses for students at different educational levels. We introduce a framework for finetuning LLMs to generate age-appropriate educational content across six grade levels, from lower elementary to adult education. Our framework successfully adapts explanations to match students' comprehension capacities without sacrificing factual correctness. This approach integrates seven established readability metrics through a clustering method and builds a comprehensive dataset for grade-specific content generation. Evaluations across multiple datasets with 208 human participants demonstrate substantial improvements in grade-level alignment, achieving a 35.64 percentage point increase compared to prompt-based methods while maintaining response accuracy. AI-assisted learning tailored to different grade levels has the potential to advance educational engagement and equity. |
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| spellingShingle | Classroom AI: Large Language Models as Grade-Specific Teachers Oh, Jio Whang, Steven Euijong Evans, James Wang, Jindong Computers and Society Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising solution to complement traditional teaching and address global teacher shortages that affect hundreds of millions of children, but they fail to provide grade-appropriate responses for students at different educational levels. We introduce a framework for finetuning LLMs to generate age-appropriate educational content across six grade levels, from lower elementary to adult education. Our framework successfully adapts explanations to match students' comprehension capacities without sacrificing factual correctness. This approach integrates seven established readability metrics through a clustering method and builds a comprehensive dataset for grade-specific content generation. Evaluations across multiple datasets with 208 human participants demonstrate substantial improvements in grade-level alignment, achieving a 35.64 percentage point increase compared to prompt-based methods while maintaining response accuracy. AI-assisted learning tailored to different grade levels has the potential to advance educational engagement and equity. |
| title | Classroom AI: Large Language Models as Grade-Specific Teachers |
| topic | Computers and Society Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06225 |