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Steven Michael Carlo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this dissertation was to scrutinize the complexities involved in the formulation and implementation of relevant policies. The design of each study mirrored key elements in the legislative life cycle specifically as it pertained to civics education policymaking, including problem identification, policy creation, and policy diffusion.…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Citizenship Education, Educational Policy, Intervention
Gloria Ashiya Katuka – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dialogue act (DA) classification plays an important role in understanding, interpreting and modeling dialogue. Dialogue acts (DAs) represent the intended meaning of an utterance, which is associated with the illocutionary force (or the speaker's intention), such as greetings, questions, requests, statements, and agreements. In natural language…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Classification, Intention, Natural Language Processing
Alexander James Kwako – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Automated assessment using Natural Language Processing (NLP) has the potential to make English speaking assessments more reliable, authentic, and accessible. Yet without careful examination, NLP may exacerbate social prejudices based on gender or native language (L1). Current NLP-based assessments are prone to such biases, yet research and…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Natural Language Processing, Native Language, Computational Linguistics
Stemper, Samuel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation includes three essays in the field of economics of education. The first essay estimates the effect of top school management on student achievement in America. I use newly-collected data on the tenures of school district superintendents--the highest-ranking executive in U.S. school districts--to estimate the impact of individual…
Descriptors: Economics, Superintendents, Scores, Administrator Effectiveness
Tansomboon, Charissa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Students studying complex science topics can benefit from receiving immediate, personalized guidance. Supporting students to revise their written explanations in science can help students to integrate disparate ideas and develop a coherent, generative account of complex scientific topics. Using natural language processing to analyze student…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Education, Science Instruction
McConky, Katie Theresa – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This work covers topics in event coreference and event classification from spoken conversation. Event coreference is the process of identifying descriptions of the same event across sentences, documents, or structured databases. Existing event coreference work focuses on sentence similarity models or feature based similarity models requiring slot…
Descriptors: Classification, Sentences, Interpersonal Communication, Verbal Communication