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When Youth Enter The Chat: An Epistemic Shift in the Validation of LLM-Based Measures of Student Talk
Liliana Santos-Deonizio, James Malamut, Ramón Antonio Martínez +1
LLMs are being used increasingly to measure aspects of student discourse (e.g. talk moves, collaboration, equity of voice) at scale. Typically, LLM-based measures of student talk u…
Mapping the Methodological Space of Classroom Interaction Research: Scale, Duration, and Modality in an Age of AI
Dorottya Demszky, Edith Bouton, Alison Twiner +2
Research on classroom interaction has long been divided between large-scale observation and in-depth ethnographic work. We propose a framework mapping this methodological space alo…
Protecting and Promoting Human Agency in Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Olga Viberg, Mutlu Cukurova, Rene F. Kizilcec +12
Human agency is crucial in education and increasingly challenged by the use of generative AI. This meeting report synthesizes interdisciplinary insights and conceptualizes four asp…
TeachLM: Post-Training LLMs for Education Using Authentic Learning Data
Janos Perczel, Jin Chow, Dorottya Demszky
The promise of generative AI to revolutionize education is constrained by the pedagogical limits of large language models (LLMs). A major issue is the lack of access to high-qualit…
Tell, Don't Show: Leveraging Language Models' Abstractive Retellings to Model Literary Themes
Li Lucy, Camilla Griffiths, Sarah Levine +3
Conventional bag-of-words approaches for topic modeling, like latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), struggle with literary text. Literature challenges lexical methods because narrativ…
Multi-Stage Speaker Diarization for Noisy Classrooms
Ali Sartaz Khan, Tolulope Ogunremi, Ahmed Adel Attia +1
Speaker diarization, the process of identifying "who spoke when" in audio recordings, is essential for understanding classroom dynamics. However, classroom settings present distinc…
Problem-Oriented Segmentation and Retrieval: Case Study on Tutoring Conversations
Rose E. Wang, Pawan Wirawarn, Kenny Lam +2
Many open-ended conversations (e.g., tutoring lessons or business meetings) revolve around pre-defined reference materials, like worksheets or meeting bullets. To provide a framewo…
CPT-Boosted Wav2vec2.0: Towards Noise Robust Speech Recognition for Classroom Environments
Ahmed Adel Attia, Dorottya Demszky, Tolulope Ogunremi +2
Creating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems that are robust and resilient to classroom conditions is paramount to the development of AI tools to aid teachers and students.…
Backtracing: Retrieving the Cause of the Query
Rose E. Wang, Pawan Wirawarn, Omar Khattab +2
Many online content portals allow users to ask questions to supplement their understanding (e.g., of lectures). While information retrieval (IR) systems may provide answers for suc…
Edu-ConvoKit: An Open-Source Library for Education Conversation Data
Rose E. Wang, Dorottya Demszky
We introduce Edu-ConvoKit, an open-source library designed to handle pre-processing, annotation and analysis of conversation data in education. Resources for analyzing education co…
"Mistakes Help Us Grow": Facilitating and Evaluating Growth Mindset Supportive Language in Classrooms
Kunal Handa, Margaret Clapper, Jessica Boyle +4
Teachers' growth mindset supportive language (GMSL)--rhetoric emphasizing that one's skills can be improved over time--has been shown to significantly reduce disparities in academi…
Bridging the Novice-Expert Gap via Models of Decision-Making: A Case Study on Remediating Math Mistakes
Rose E. Wang, Qingyang Zhang, Carly Robinson +2
Scaling high-quality tutoring remains a major challenge in education. Due to growing demand, many platforms employ novice tutors who, unlike experienced educators, struggle to addr…