Written reflective practice is a regular exercise pre-service teachers perform during their higher education. Usually, their lecturers are expected to provide individual feedback, which can be a challenging task to perform on a regular basis. In this paper, we present the first open-source automated feedback tool based on didactic theory and implemented as a hybrid AI system. We describe the components and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of our system compared to the state-of-art generative large language models. The main objective of our work is to enable better learning outcomes for students and to complement the teaching activities of lecturers.
@article{arxiv.2307.07523,
title = {PapagAI:Automated Feedback for Reflective Essays},
author = {Veronika Solopova and Adrian Gruszczynski and Eiad Rostom and Fritz Cremer and Sascha Witte and Chengming Zhang and Fernando Ramos López Lea Plößl and Florian Hofmann and Ralf Romeike and Michaela Gläser-Zikuda and Christoph Benzmüller and Tim Landgraf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.07523},
year = {2023}
}