While large language models (LLMs) continue to grow in scale and gain new zero-shot capabilities, their performance for languages beyond English increasingly lags behind. This gap is due to the "curse of multilinguality," where multilingual language models perform worse on individual languages than a monolingual model trained on that…

Bringing effective, research-based literacy interventions into the classroom is challenging, especially given the cultural and linguistic diversity of today's classrooms. We examined the promise of Assessment-to-Instruction (A2i) technology redesigned to be used at scale to support teachers' implementation of the individualized student instruction…

Bringing effective, research-based literacy interventions into the classroom is challenging, especially given the cultural and linguistic diversity of today's classrooms. We examined the promise of Assessment-to-Instruction (A2i) technology redesigned to be used at scale to support teachers' implementation of the individualized student instruction…