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Brian Heseung Kim; Julie J. Park; Pearl Lo; Dominique Baker; Nancy Wong; Stephanie Breen; Huong Truong; Jia Zheng; Kelly Rosinger; OiYan A. Poon – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Letters of recommendation from school counselors are required to apply to most selective universities. We use cutting-edge natural language processing techniques to algorithmically analyze a national dataset of over 600,000 student applications and counselor recommendation letters submitted through the Common Application. We examine how the length…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Advocacy, School Counselors, High Schools
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Nathan Mentzer; Wonki Lee; Andrew Jackson; Scott Bartholomew – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
Adaptive comparative judgment (ACJ) has been widely used to evaluate classroom artifacts with reliability and validity. In the ACJ experience we examined, students were provided a pair of images related to backpack design. For each pair, students were required to select which image could help them ideate better. Then, they were prompted to provide…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Design, Engineering Education, Evaluation Methods
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Xuefan Li; Tingsong Li; Minjuan Wang; Sining Tao; Xiaoxu Zhou; Xiaoqing Wei; Naiqing Guan – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2025
With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), its application in educational settings has increasingly become a focal point, particularly in enhancing students' analytical capabilities. This study examines the effectiveness of the ChatGPT prompt framework in improving text analysis skills among students, specifically…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, High School Students, Foreign Countries
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Hannah K. D’Apice; Patricia Bromley – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Anthropogenic climate change is a scientific fact, but U.S. public discourse around the issue remains mired in controversy, including in education. Our study leverages natural language processing methods to give a precise look into the extent to which climate change-related topics are covered in 30 of the most widely used high school history…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Discourse Analysis, United States History
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Alessandra Zappoli; Alessio Palmero Aprosio; Sara Tonelli – Written Communication, 2024
In this work, we explore the use of digital technologies and statistical analysis to monitor how Italian secondary school students' writing changes over time and how comparisons can be made across different high school types. We analyzed more than 2,000 exam essays written by Italian high school students over 13 years and in five different school…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing (Composition), Foreign Countries, High School Students
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Bataineh, Ruba Fahmi; Baniabdelrahman, Abdallah Ahmad; Khalaf, Kafa Mohammad Bani – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2018
This study examines the potential effect of an eight-week e-mail- and WhatsApp-based instructional treatment on 45 Jordanian EFL tenth-grade students' paraphrasing and summarizing skills. Three instruments were used for data collection: a pre-test, a post-test, and an interview schedule. The findings reveal statistically significant differences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Donnelly, Dermot F.; Vitale, Jonathan M.; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2015
Middle school students struggle to explain thermodynamics concepts. In this study, to help students succeed, we use a natural language processing program to analyze their essays explaining the aspects of thermodynamics and provide guidance based on the automated score. The 346 sixth-grade students were assigned to either the critique condition…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Secondary School Science, Thermodynamics
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Hu, Xiangen, Ed.; Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Hershkovitz, Arnon, Ed.; Paquette, Luc, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
The 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Optics Velley Kingdom Plaza Hotel, Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. This years conference features two invited talks by: Dr. Jie Tang, Associate Professor with the Department of Computer…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Graphs, Data Use
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis