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An Agentic Evaluation Architecture for Historical Bias Detection in Educational Textbooks

Gabriel Stefan, Adrian-Marius Dumitran · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

History textbooks often contain implicit biases, nationalist framing, and selective omissions that are difficult to audit at scale. We propose an agentic evaluation architecture comprising a multimodal screening agent, a heterogeneous jury of five evaluative agents, and a meta-agent for verdict synthesis and human escalation. A central contribution is a Source Attribution Protocol that distinguishes textbook narrative from quoted historical sources, preventing the misattribution that causes systematic false positives in single-model evaluators. In an empirical study on Romanian upper-secondary history textbooks, 83.3\% of 270 screened excerpts were classified as pedagogically acceptable (mean severity 2.9/7), versus 5.4/7 under a zero-shot baseline, demonstrating that agentic deliberation mitigates over-penalization. In a blind human evaluation (18 evaluators, 54 comparisons), the Independent Deliberation configuration was preferred in 64.8\% of cases over both a heuristic variant and the zero-shot baseline. At approximately \$2 per textbook, these results position agentic evaluation architectures as economically viable decision-support tools for educational governance.

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Human Feedback Signal

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Evidence snippet: History textbooks often contain implicit biases, nationalist framing, and selective omissions that are difficult to audit at scale.

Evaluation Modes

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Human Eval

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Evidence snippet: History textbooks often contain implicit biases, nationalist framing, and selective omissions that are difficult to audit at scale.

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Evidence snippet: History textbooks often contain implicit biases, nationalist framing, and selective omissions that are difficult to audit at scale.

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Evidence snippet: History textbooks often contain implicit biases, nationalist framing, and selective omissions that are difficult to audit at scale.

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Evidence snippet: History textbooks often contain implicit biases, nationalist framing, and selective omissions that are difficult to audit at scale.

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Evidence snippet: History textbooks often contain implicit biases, nationalist framing, and selective omissions that are difficult to audit at scale.

Human Data Lens

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  • Expertise required: General
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Evaluation Lens

  • Evaluation modes: Human Eval
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  • Confidence: 0.30
  • Flags: low_signal, possible_false_positive

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Research Brief

Deterministic synthesis

We propose an agentic evaluation architecture comprising a multimodal screening agent, a heterogeneous jury of five evaluative agents, and a meta-agent for verdict synthesis and human escalation. HFEPX signals include Human Eval with confidence 0.30. Updated from current HFEPX corpus.

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Key Takeaways

  • We propose an agentic evaluation architecture comprising a multimodal screening agent, a heterogeneous jury of five evaluative agents, and a meta-agent for verdict synthesis and…
  • In an empirical study on Romanian upper-secondary history textbooks, 83.3\% of 270 screened excerpts were classified as pedagogically acceptable (mean severity 2.9/7), versus…

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Research Summary

Contribution Summary

  • We propose an agentic evaluation architecture comprising a multimodal screening agent, a heterogeneous jury of five evaluative agents, and a meta-agent for verdict synthesis and human escalation.
  • In an empirical study on Romanian upper-secondary history textbooks, 83.3\% of 270 screened excerpts were classified as pedagogically acceptable (mean severity 2.9/7), versus 5.4/7 under a zero-shot baseline, demonstrating that agentic…
  • In a blind human evaluation (18 evaluators, 54 comparisons), the Independent Deliberation configuration was preferred in 64.8\% of cases over both a heuristic variant and the zero-shot baseline.

Why It Matters For Eval

  • We propose an agentic evaluation architecture comprising a multimodal screening agent, a heterogeneous jury of five evaluative agents, and a meta-agent for verdict synthesis and human escalation.
  • In an empirical study on Romanian upper-secondary history textbooks, 83.3\% of 270 screened excerpts were classified as pedagogically acceptable (mean severity 2.9/7), versus 5.4/7 under a zero-shot baseline, demonstrating that agentic…

Researcher Checklist

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