Hong Jiao

Cognitive Episodes in LLM Reasoning Traces Enable Interpretable Human Item Difficulty Prediction

Chenguang Wang, Ming Li, Xinyue Zeng, Zhuochun Li, Hong Jiao, Tianyi Zhou, et al.

Predicting human item difficulty is central to educational assessment, where reliable estimates support fairness and effective test construction. Existing methods often depend on costly human calibration or item-level textual representations, providing limited evidence about the…Read more