8 papers
Detecting and Enhancing Intellectual Humility in Online Political Discourse
Samantha D'Alonzo, Rachel Chen, Weidong Zhang +7
Intellectual humility (IH)-a recognition of one's own intellectual limitations-can reduce polarization and foster more understanding across lines of difference. Yet little work exp…
Human-AI Narrative Synthesis to Foster Shared Understanding in Civic Decision-Making
Cassandra Overney, Hang Jiang, Urooj Haider +6
Community engagement processes in representative political contexts, like school districts, generate massive volumes of feedback that overwhelm traditional synthesis methods, creat…
A community-driven optimization framework for redrawing school attendance boundaries
Hongzhao Guan, Paul Riggins, Tyler Simko +8
The vast majority of US public school districts use school attendance boundaries to determine which student addresses are assigned to which schools. Existing work shows how redrawi…
BoundarEase: Fostering Constructive Community Engagement to Inform More Equitable Student Assignment Policies
Cassandra Overney, Cassandra Moe, Alvin Chang +1
School districts across the United States (US) play a pivotal role in shaping access to quality education through their student assignment policies -- most prominently, school atte…
Computational Social Science and Critical Studies of Education and Technology: An Improbable Combination?
Rebecca Eynon, Nabeel Gillani
As belief around the potential of computational social science grows, fuelled by recent advances in machine learning, data scientists are ostensibly becoming the new experts in edu…
Merging public elementary schools to reduce racial/ethnic segregation
Madison Landry, Nabeel Gillani
Diverse schools can help address implicit biases and increase empathy, mutual respect, and reflective thought by fostering connections between students from different racial/ethnic…