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Comparing Zero-Shot Large Language Model Prompting with Human Coding of Theory Concepts in Student Essays

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Examination of coding accuracy for content errors in college student essays on criminological theories by comparing human-coded results with outputs from four LLMs indicates that LLM choice significantly influenced human-AI correspondence.

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