Agreement Is Not Validity: Cross-Model LLM Consensus in Diagnosing Student Failure Modes in K-12 Math Tutoring Dialogue

arXiv:2610.08703 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-06 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-06

Updated: 2026-10-06

Comments: Submitted to LAK27 as a short paper. Currently under review

Code: https://github.com/claytoncohn/LAK27

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• CoTAL: Human-in-the-Loop Prompt Engineering for Generalizable Formative Assessment Scoring and Feedback

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