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Interpretable contrastive word mover's embedding
Ruijie Jiang, Julia Gouvea, Eric Miller +2
This paper shows that a popular approach to the supervised embedding of documents for classification, namely, contrastive Word Mover's Embedding, can be significantly enhanced by a…
Automatic coding of students' writing via Contrastive Representation Learning in the Wasserstein space
Ruijie Jiang, Julia Gouvea, David Hammer +2
Qualitative analysis of verbal data is of central importance in the learning sciences. It is labor-intensive and time-consuming, however, which limits the amount of data researcher…
A Vision of Interdisciplinary Education: Students' Reasoning about "High-Energy Bonds" and ATP
Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Vashti Sawtelle, Chandra Turpen +2
As interdisciplinary courses are developed, instructors and researchers have to grapple with questions of how students should make connections across disciplines. We explore the is…
Ontological metaphors for negative energy in an interdisciplinary context
Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Benjamin D. Geller, Julia Gouvea +3
Teaching about energy in interdisciplinary settings that emphasize coherence among physics, chemistry, and biology leads to a more central role for chemical bond energy. We argue t…
Entropy and spontaneity in an introductory physics course for life science students
Benjamin D. Geller, Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Julia Gouvea +3
In an Introductory Physics for Life Science (IPLS) course that leverages authentic biological examples, student ideas about entropy as "disorder" or "chaos" come into contact with…
NEXUS/Physics: An interdisciplinary repurposing of physics for biologists
E. F. Redish, C. Bauer, K. L. Carleton +15
In response to increasing calls for the reform of the undergraduate science curriculum for life science majors and pre-medical students (Bio2010, Scientific Foundations for Future…
Chemical energy in an introductory physics course for the life sciences
Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Julia Gouvea, Benjamin D. Geller +3
Energy is a complex idea that cuts across scientific disciplines. For life science students, an approach to energy that incorporates chemical bonds and chemical reactions is better…
Negative Energy: Why Interdisciplinary Physics Requires Multiple Ontologies
Benjamin W. Dreyfus, Benjamin D. Geller, Julia Gouvea +3
Much recent work in physics education research has focused on ontological metaphors for energy, particularly the substance ontology and its pedagogical affordances. The concept of…