Exploratory · not formal rating data

Automated listening-item judge pilot

GPT-5.6 Luna · transcript-only pilot

A useful warning, not a quality certificate

The first automated pilot reviewed all 32 generated items. It exposed the assigned operation and answer key, so operation agreement was not blind. It also produced no variation at all on C5–C15. The next benchmark therefore hides labels and keys first and adds controlled-defect cases.

Operation classification

Assigned versus detected operation

Assigned match means the model's detected primary operation agreed with the operation requested during item generation. Because the assigned label was visible, this is a descriptive pilot comparison, not independent classification accuracy.

Ceiling diagnostic

C5–C15 showed zero discrimination

Luna returned YES for all 352 quality judgments. That is evidence of judge leniency or prompt anchoring, not proof that every item is flawless.

What changes next

Blind, contrastive, and portable evaluation

Interpretation boundaries

What this pilot does not establish

It does not establish formal CEFR level, empirical difficulty, discrimination, learner performance, empirical distractor functioning, test reliability, source effects, causal effects, or population prevalence. Protected transcripts, audio, answer keys, and raw private model records are not published here.