I study how AI can help teachers give feedback that students act on and learn from, combining large language models, AI for analysing text, and learning analytics on real student assignments and teacher feedback.

I am a PhD candidate in Information Technology (Learning Analytics) at Monash University's Centre for Learning Analytics, submitting my thesis in December 2026, and a Teaching Associate in Monash's Faculty of Information Technology. I am also a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia. I hold a Bachelor's and a Master's in Mathematics from Universitas Lampung.

5
articles in leading AI-in-education journals, 2024–2026, 3 as first author
7
manuscripts under review or in preparation
1,000+
Google Scholar citations
Dec 2026
PhD thesis submission

Research focus

Learner-centred feedback

Turning an established feedback framework into measurable categories: does feedback guide students’ next tasks (future impact), help them understand their current work (sensemaking), and encourage them to take charge of their learning (agency)?

Generative AI & LLM evaluation

Designing and evaluating LLM feedback workflows across prompting conditions, and comparing AI-generated with teacher feedback on how useful it is for learning and how it is written.

AI for analysing feedback text

Building datasets of real teacher feedback and training AI models (such as BERT) that recognise several feedback qualities in one comment, checked carefully against human judgement.

Learning analytics & outcomes

Linking feedback, educator–AI interaction, and student revision to subsequent academic performance.

Methods & tools: Python · R · SQL · BERT · scikit-learn · PyTorch · LLM APIs & prompt design · statistical modelling · qualitative thematic analysis · dataset annotation

Doctoral research

Five connected studies, from mapping feedback to automating its analysis to how teachers and students use it.

  1. 1

    Mapping learner-centred feedback

    Analysed authentic higher-education feedback, its alignment with learner-centred components, and patterns across student groups.

    Published · Computers & Education, 2025
  2. 2

    Automating feedback analysis

    Machine learning and NLP to classify learner-centred feedback; the AI models agreed almost perfectly with trained human coders (Cohen's κ up to 0.956). Implemented in PolyFeed, a research tool from the Centre for Learning Analytics that helps students act on feedback and teachers write better feedback.

    Published · Computers and Education: AI, 2024
  3. 3

    Can AI be learner-centred?

    Comparing human and generative AI feedback: 5,156 human- and LLM-generated feedback texts on 1,289 student proposals, across prompting strategies, judged on how useful they are for learning and how they are written.

    Under review
  4. 4

    Teacher–AI collaboration

    How educators use, revise, and trust AI-supported feedback in PolyFeed, including ethics and usability.

    Published · Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2026
  5. 5

    Does learner-centred feedback pay off?

    Linked learner-centred feedback components to revision actions and subsequent performance for 1,929 students across three semesters.

    In preparation

PolyFeed, an AI-supported feedback analytics system, includes the classification model I built in Study 2. Meet the PolyFeed team.

Selected publications

  1. Enhancing learner-centered feedback with AI: Teachers' practices and perceptionsAldino, A. A., Maheshi, B., Li, Y., Zhou, Y., Tsai, Y.-S., Gašević, D., & Chen, G.Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 51(5), 892–910 · 2026
  2. Analytics of learner-centered feedback: A large-scale case study in higher educationAldino, A. A., Tsai, Y.-S., Gupte, S., Henderson, M., Nath, D., Gašević, D., & Chen, G.Computers & Education, 237, 105360 · 2025
  3. Evaluating the capability of large language models in characterising relational feedback: A comparative analysis of prompting strategiesDai, W., Cheng, Y., Aldino, A. A., Tsai, Y.-S., Gašević, D., & Chen, G.Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 8, 100427 · 2025
  4. Enhancing feedback quality at scale: Leveraging machine learning for learner-centered feedbackAldino, A. A., Tsai, Y.-S., Mello, R. F., Gašević, D., & Chen, G.Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 7, 100332 · 2024
  5. Assessing the proficiency of large language models in automatic feedback generation: An evaluation studyDai, W., Tsai, Y.-S., Lin, J., Aldino, A. A., Jin, H., Li, T., Gašević, D., & Chen, G.Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 7, 100299 · 2024

Manuscripts under review and in preparation

  1. Can AI be learner-centred? Comparing human and generative AI feedback in higher educationAldino, A. A., Tsai, Y.-S., Gašević, D., & Chen, G.Under review · Doctoral Study 3
  2. Exploring students’ feedback literacy: A study of differences in feedback interactions based on confidence and performance expectation alignmentRataphaibul, P.*, Aldino, A. A.*, Nawaz, S., Maheshi, B., Jin, F., Chen, G., & Tsai, Y.-S.Under review, Journal of Learning Analytics · *Joint first authors
  3. Making feedback traceable: Examining how students act on feedbackMaheshi, B., Aldino, A., Swiecki, Z., Lim, E., Nikfalazar, S., Martinez-Maldonado, R., & Tsai, Y.-S.Under review
  4. How do students interact with my feedback? A feedback analytics tool to facilitate dialogic feedbackMaheshi, B., Palihena, H., Aldino, A., Jin, F., Wang, Z., Ng, K. H., Gašević, D., Chen, G., Charwat, N., Chan, P. W. K., Nawaz, S., Martinez-Maldonado, R., & Tsai, Y.-S.Under review, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
  5. Facilitating dialogic feedback using student-facing and educator-facing feedback analytics dashboardsMaheshi, B., Wang, Z., Aldino, A., Palihena, H., Ng, K. H., Martinez-Maldonado, R., & Tsai, Y.-S.Under review, Journal of Learning Analytics
  6. GenAI feedback for supporting students’ goal setting and enactment: A mixed-methods studyLiang, Z., Li, Y., Aldino, A., Sha, L., Gašević, D., & Chen, G.Under review, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
  7. Does learner-centred feedback pay off? Evidence from student uptake and performance change in higher educationAldino, A. A., Tsai, Y.-S., Gašević, D., & Chen, G.In preparation · Doctoral Study 5

Full list on Google Scholar.

Research agenda

From better feedback to better learning: AI feedback that students act on, and that carries over to their next piece of work.

Teacher-approved AI feedback that transfers

Test, in randomised experiments across courses and semesters, whether AI feedback reviewed and approved by teachers improves students’ performance on later assignments, not only their revisions.

Trustworthy evaluation of AI feedback

Evaluation frameworks that combine pedagogical quality, accuracy, and fairness across student groups and languages, including Indonesian, so institutions can adopt AI feedback tools with evidence.

From uptake to learning

Structured action planning that keeps planning and monitoring with students (metacognitive onloading), and whether strategic rather than surface uptake explains when feedback leads to learning.

Teaching & appointments

  • 2023 – present

    Teaching Associate · Monash University

    Postgraduate data science in the Faculty of Information Technology, including FIT5145: tutorials, consultations, assessment, and feedback.

  • 2019 – present

    Lecturer (Assistant Professor) · Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia

    Undergraduate data mining, statistics, data visualisation, data warehousing, and data science; curriculum design and thesis supervision.

  • 2013 – 2015

    Assistant Lecturer · Universitas Lampung

    Supported undergraduate and graduate teaching in information technology and programming.

Education

PhD, Information Technology (Learning Analytics)
Monash University · 2023–2026 · BPI scholarship

Master of Mathematics
Universitas Lampung · 2019

Bachelor of Mathematics
Universitas Lampung · 2015

Service & membership

Peer reviewer, 2024–2026
Computers & Education: AI · Teaching and Teacher Education · Education and Information Technologies · Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education · Heliyon · Cogent Business & Management

Member, Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), 2024–present

Contact

I am open to postdoctoral positions from 2027 in AI in education, learning analytics, and educational NLP, and welcome conversations with researchers and educators.

ahmad.aldino@monash.edu