AI RESEARCH
When AI Meets Early Childhood Education: Large Language Models as Assessment Teammates in Chinese Preschools
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2603.24389v1 Announce Type: new High-quality teacher-child interaction (TCI) is fundamental to early childhood development, yet traditional expert-based assessment faces a critical scalability challenge. In large systems like China's-serving 36M children across 250,000+ kindergartens-the cost and time requirements of manual observation make continuous quality monitoring infeasible, relegating assessment to infrequent episodic audits that limit timely intervention and improvement tracking.