cs.CY · 2026-06-23 · No. 32

Computers and Society, 2026-06-23.

2 new papers in cs.CY. Titles, authors, abstracts. Links to arXiv. Want this in your inbox every morning? Subscribe →

01 — The papers

2 entries
  1. 01

    The Correct Answer Trap: Pedagogically-Grounded Detection and Feedback for Hidden Misconceptions

    Moiz Imran, Sahan Bulathwela

    cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.IR

    Automated feedback systems that rely on answer correctness will reinforce, rather than address, misconceptions when students reach the correct answer through flawed reasoning. We investigate automatic detection of these hidden misconceptions using 20,964 real student responses from the Eedi mathematics platform. Fine-tuned classifiers detect only 57% of these hidden misconceptions, and standard ML interventions do not improve on this. An...

    arxiv.org/abs/2606.23205 · PDF

  2. 02

    The Model as One Rater Among Several: Measuring Political Positions in Data-Sparse Regions with a Language-Model Panel

    Tarek Gara

    cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.CL · stat.AP

    Most tools for measuring political positions, manifesto coding, expert surveys, text-scaling models, were built and validated on Western party systems, and outside that setting they work poorly, and often not at all. This paper is an attempt at a method for those settings. It treats a large language model not as a measurement device but as a single, fallible rater in a panel, roughly the way an expert survey treats one expert: the value comes...

    arxiv.org/abs/2606.23042 · PDF

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