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Why Do You Want to Be a Teacher? A Natural Language Processing Approach
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Brendan Bartanen; Andrew Kwok; Andrew Avitabile; Brian Heseung Kim – Educational Researcher, 2025
Heightened concerns about the health of the teaching profession highlight the importance of studying the early teacher pipeline. This exploratory, descriptive article examines preservice teachers' expressed motivation for pursuing a teaching career. Using data from a large teacher education program in Texas, we use a natural language processing…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation), Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
Climate Change Discourse in U.S. History Textbooks from California and Texas
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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
Why Do You Want to Be a Teacher? A Natural Language Processing Approach
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Brendan Bartanen; Andrew Kwok; Andrew Avitabile; Brian Heseung Kim – Grantee Submission, 2025
Heightened concerns about the health of the teaching profession highlight the importance of studying the early teacher pipeline. This exploratory, descriptive article examines preservice teachers' expressed motivation for pursuing a teaching career. Using data from a large teacher education program in Texas, we use a natural language processing…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers
Predicting Math Identity through Language and Click-Stream Patterns in a Blended Learning Mathematics Program for Elementary Students
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Crossley, Scott A.; Karumbaiah, Shamya; Ocumpaugh, Jaclyn; Labrum, Matthew J.; Baker, Ryan S. – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2020
This study builds on prior research by leveraging natural language processing (NLP), click-stream analyses, and survey data to predict students' mathematics success and math identity (namely, self-concept, interest, and value of mathematics). Specifically, we combine NLP tools designed to measure lexical sophistication, text cohesion, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Blended Learning, Self Concept, Audience Response Systems
Automated Writing Evaluation and Feedback: Multiple Metrics of Efficacy
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Wilson, Joshua; Roscoe, Rod D. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
The present study extended research on the effectiveness of automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems. Sixth graders were randomly assigned by classroom to an AWE condition that used "Project Essay Grade Writing" (n = 56) or a word-processing condition that used Google Docs (n = 58). Effectiveness was evaluated using multiple metrics:…
Descriptors: Automation, Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Instructional Effectiveness
Modeling Math Identity and Math Success through Sentiment Analysis and Linguistic Features
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Crossley, Scott; Ocumpaugh, Jaclyn; Labrum, Matthew; Bradfield, Franklin; Dascalu, Mihai; Baker, Ryan S. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
A number of studies have demonstrated strong links between students' language features (as found in spoken and written production) and their math performance. However, no studies have examined links between the students' language features and measures of their Math Identity. This project extends prior studies that use natural language processing…
Descriptors: Correlation, Speech Communication, Written Language, Mathematics Achievement