CLARA: Can AI Assess Developmental Appropriateness in Children's Stories?

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arXiv:2610.05783v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assessing the developmental suitability of children's narratives is important for educational recommendation and developmental literacy research, yet such assessment typically relies on subjective and difficult-to-scale human judgment. This raises an important question: Can AI systems approximate human developmental judgments of children's stories? To study this problem, we introduce CLARA, a cognitively grounded framework for developmental narra