An LLM-Based Adaptive Learning System for Automated Essay Assessment Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy
摘要
This chapter introduces an interactive learning system that uses OpenAI’s large language model (LLM) to automatically create and evaluate essay-style questions aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy. The system processes educational PDFs using term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF)-based keyword extraction (from unigram to trigram) to connect question content to its source, reducing hallucinations. Semantic evaluation is performed with the ada-002 embedding model and cosine similarity to assess student answers. When similarity scores fall below a set threshold, the system provides follow-up questions to support adaptive learning. The platform supports multiple languages and was tested in a two-phase study with university students in Japan and Indonesia. Evaluation using the technology acceptance model (TAM) showed high perceived usefulness (0.991) and ease of use (0.850), with improved results after system updates. Findings also indicate that documents in their original language (English) produce more stable and accurate semantic similarity scores than translated versions, highlighting the limitations of cross-lingual embeddings in AI-assisted educational assessment.