Translating AI and peer feedback in sustainability-oriented STEM teacher education: pre-service mathematics teachers’ uptake, revision, and modeling task-design quality
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Introduction: As generative AI becomes increasingly available in teacher education, a central question is how pre-service teachers interpret, evaluate, and translate different feedback sources into coherent design decisions. This study examined how 22 South Korean pre-service mathematics teachers used AI and peer feedback while revising sustainability-oriented mathematical modeling tasks on school cafeteria food waste, a context aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 12. Methods: Using an exploratory, comparative mixed-methods sequence-comparison design embedded in an authentic teacher-education course, participants received two rounds of feedback in different sequences: AI followed by peer feedback or peer feedback followed by AI. Framed within cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions of feedback engagement, the analysis combined double-coded ratings of initial and final task designs, feedback-response records, revision-depth coding, validation-focused revision indicators, and post-activity reflections. Results: Participants rarely copied feedback passively: 20 selectively accepted feedback in at least one round, and 17 made at least one structural or reconceptual revision. Five participants showed a positive composite gain in rated task-design quality. Participants valued AI feedback for its specificity, new perspectives, and speed, and more often made validation-focused revisions after it, whereas they valued peer feedback for mutual communication, classroom realism, and student perspective. Descriptive comparisons showed different engagement trajectories across the sequence conditions alongside similar composite-quality changes. Discussion: Feedback translation provides an analytic perspective on the divergence between revision activity and artifact quality. Within this course context, the findings show how feedback evaluation, revision decisions, and artifact quality can diverge and suggest that teacher educators should scaffold evaluative judgment, source comparison, and post-revision coherence checking.
Source: Frontiers in Psychology
Author: Sejun Oh
Institution: Hongik University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,801
OpenAlex ID: W7220687394