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Ying Fang; Rod D. Roscoe; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based assessments are commonly used in a variety of settings including business, healthcare, policing, manufacturing, and education. In education, AI-based assessments undergird intelligent tutoring systems as well as many tools used to evaluate students and, in turn, guide learning and instruction. This chapter…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Testing, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Laura K. Allen; Arthur C. Grasser; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Assessments of natural language can provide vast information about individuals' thoughts and cognitive process, but they often rely on time-intensive human scoring, deterring researchers from collecting these sources of data. Natural language processing (NLP) gives researchers the opportunity to implement automated textual analyses across a…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Natural Language Processing, Automation, Research Methodology
Muhsin Menekse – Grantee Submission, 2023
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as large language models (LLMs) and diffusion model image and video generators, can transform learning and teaching experiences by providing students and instructors with access to a vast amount of information and create innovative learning and teaching materials in a very efficient way…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Engineering Education, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education
Kylie L. Anglin; Vivian C. Wong; Arielle Boguslav – Grantee Submission, 2021
Though there is widespread recognition of the importance of implementation research, evaluators often face intense logistical, budgetary, and methodological challenges in their efforts to assess intervention implementation in the field. This article proposes a set of natural language processing techniques called semantic similarity as an…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Program Implementation, Measurement Techniques, Intervention
Botarleanu, Robert-Mihai; Dascalu, Mihai; Watanabe, Micah; McNamara, Danielle S.; Crossley, Scott Andrew – Grantee Submission, 2021
The ability to objectively quantify the complexity of a text can be a useful indicator of how likely learners of a given level will comprehend it. Before creating more complex models of assessing text difficulty, the basic building block of a text consists of words and, inherently, its overall difficulty is greatly influenced by the complexity of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Acquisition, Age, Models
Danielle S. McNamara; Tracy Arner; Reese Butterfuss; Debshila Basu Mallick; Andrew S. Lan; Rod D. Roscoe; Henry L. Roediger; Richard G. Baraniuk – Grantee Submission, 2022
The learning sciences inherently involve interdisciplinary research with an overarching objective of advancing theories of learning and to inform the design and implementation of effective instructional methods and learning technologies. In these endeavors, learning sciences encompass diverse constructs, measures, processes, and outcomes…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Learning Processes, Learning Motivation, Educational Research
Crossley, Scott A.; Kim, Minkyung; Allen, Laura K.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Summarization is an effective strategy to promote and enhance learning and deep comprehension of texts. However, summarization is seldom implemented by teachers in classrooms because the manual evaluation of students' summaries requires time and effort. This problem has led to the development of automated models of summarization quality. However,…
Descriptors: Automation, Writing Evaluation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence
McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
This article provides a commentary within the special issue, Integration: The Keystone of Comprehension. According to most contemporary frameworks, a driving force in comprehension is the reader's ability to generate the links among the words and sentences (ideas) in the texts and between the ideas in the text and what the readers already know. As…
Descriptors: Inferences, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Janice D. Gobert; Michael A. Sao Pedro; Haiying Li; Christine Lott – Grantee Submission, 2023
In this entry, we define Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) and present a description of their core components. We outline a history of the development of ITSs with a focus on key issues that have driven change and innovation in ITSs from their inception to present day. We also present a brief case study on a specific ITS, Inq-ITS (Inquiry…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Natural Language Processing
Corlatescu, Dragos-Georgian; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Reading comprehension is key to knowledge acquisition and to reinforcing memory for previous information. While reading, a mental representation is constructed in the reader's mind. The mental model comprises the words in the text, the relations between the words, and inferences linking to concepts in prior knowledge. The automated model of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Memory, Inferences, Syntax
Cai, Zhiqiang; Hu, Xiangen; Graesser, Arthur C. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Conversational Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) are expensive to develop. While simple online courseware could be easily authored by teachers, the authoring of conversational ITSs usually involves a team of experts with different expertise, including domain experts, linguists, instruction designers, programmers, artists, computer scientists,…
Descriptors: Programming, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Courseware, Educational Technology
Pavlik, Philip I., Jr.; Olney, Andrew M.; Banker, Amanda; Eglington, Luke; Yarbro, Jeffrey – Grantee Submission, 2020
An intelligent textbook may be considered to be an interaction layer that lies between the text and the student, helping the student to master the content in the text. The Mobile Fact and Concept Training System (MoFaCTS) is an adaptive instructional system for simple content that has been developed into an interaction layer to mediate textbook…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Electronic Learning, Instructional Design
Cai, Zhiqiang; Siebert-Evenstone, Amanda; Eagan, Brendan; Shaffer, David Williamson; Hu, Xiangen; Graesser, Arthur C. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Coding is a process of assigning meaning to a given piece of evidence. Evidence may be found in a variety of data types, including documents, research interviews, posts from social media, conversations from learning platforms, or any source of data that may provide insights for the questions under qualitative study. In this study, we focus on text…
Descriptors: Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Evidence, Coding
Anglin, Kylie L. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Education researchers have traditionally faced severe data limitations in studying local policy variation; administrative datasets capture only a fraction of districts' policy decisions, and it can be expensive to collect more nuanced implementation data from teachers and leaders. Natural language processing and web-scraping techniques can help…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Educational Policy, Web Sites, Decision Making
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Dascalu, Mihai; Jacovina, Matthew E.; Soto, Christian M.; Allen, Laura K.; Dai, Jianmin; Guerrero, Tricia A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2017
iSTART is a web-based reading comprehension tutor. A recent translation of iSTART from English to Spanish has made the system available to a new audience. In this paper, we outline several challenges that arose during the development process, specifically focusing on the algorithms that drive the feedback. Several iSTART activities encourage…
Descriptors: Spanish, Reading Comprehension, Natural Language Processing, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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