5 papers
Assessing Physics Students' Scientific Argumentation using Natural Language Processing
Winter Allen, Carina M. Rebello, N. Sanjay Rebello
Scientific argumentation is a core science and engineering practice and a necessary 21st Century workforce skill. Due to the nature of large enrollment classes, it is difficult to…
Examining Student and AI Generated Personalized Analogies in Introductory Physics
Amogh Sirnoorkar, Winter Allen, Syed Furqan Abbas Hashmi +1
Comparing abstract concepts (such as electric circuits) with familiar ideas (plumbing systems) through analogies is central to practice and communication of physics. Contemporary r…
Students' Perceptions to a Large Language Model's Generated Feedback and Scores of Argumentation Essays
Winter Allen, Anand Shanker, N. Sanjay Rebello
Students in introductory physics courses often rely on ineffective strategies, focusing on final answers rather than understanding underlying principles. Integrating scientific arg…
Exploring the Feasibility of Employing a Hybrid Machine Learning Method to Unpack Student Reasoning Patterns in Physics Essays
Winter Allen, N. Sanjay Rebello
We propose a novel clustering pipeline that combines two classic clustering algorithms to better understand student problem-solving strategies. This unsupervised machine learning m…
Applying a STEM Ways of Thinking Framework for Student-generated Engineering Design-based Physics Problems
Ravishankar Chatta Subramaniam, Nikhil Borse, Winter Allen +4
This second paper in a multi-part series builds on the first, which introduced the Ways of Thinking for Engineering Design-based Physics (WoT4EDP) framework for STEM education in a…