The Pedagogical Promptbook
As soon as ChatGPT was released, educators began creating libraries of prompts for educational use. These libraries frequently contained no information about how the prompts were developed, what (if any) research they were based on, or how (or if) they had been evaluated. There was a clear need to curate a collection of prompts grounded in educational research and created by means of rigorous development and evaluation processes. Prompts one could feel confident using personally, recommending to colleagues, or assigning to students in order to improve student outcomes.
The chapters in The Pedagogical Promptbook accomplish by following a consistent, high-level structure:
- a brief overview of an evidence-based teaching practice or instructional design approach and the research on its effectiveness,
- a description of the iterative process the author(s) used to translate the practice into a detailed prompt designed to cause a large language model to enact the practice reliably and with a high degree of fidelity,
- a description of the process used to evaluate the prompt's reliability and effectiveness at enacting the practice with a high degree of fidelity,
- the outcomes of the evaluation,
- references, and
- the full text of the final version of the prompt.
Each chapter in The Pedagogical Promptbook develops and evaluates a prompt that enables LLMs to enact an evidence-based practice consistently and with a high degree of fidelity. The book's Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license allows everyone, everywhere to copy, adapt, and use the prompts for free.
Read the Book
Read Volume 1 of The Pedagogical Promptbook for free online.
And watch for the Call for Proposals for Volume 2.