8 papers
When Youth Enter The Chat: An Epistemic Shift in the Validation of LLM-Based Measures of Student Talk
Liliana Santos-Deonizio, James Malamut, Ramón 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…