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Dragos Corlatescu; Micah Watanabe; Stefan Ruseti; Mihai Dascalu; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Reading comprehension is essential for both knowledge acquisition and memory reinforcement. Automated modeling of the comprehension process provides insights into the efficacy of specific texts as learning tools. This paper introduces an improved version of the Automated Model of Comprehension, version 3.0 (AMoC v3.0). AMoC v3.0 is based on two…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Models, Concept Mapping, Graphs
Bogdan Nicula; Marilena Panaite; Tracy Arner; Renu Balyan; Mihai Dascalu; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Self-explanation practice is an effective method to support students in better understanding complex texts. This study focuses on automatically assessing the comprehension strategies employed by readers while understanding STEM texts. Data from 3 datasets (N = 11,833) with self-explanations annotated on different comprehension strategies (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Metacognition, STEM Education
Allen, Laura Kristen; Magliano, Joseph P.; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Sonia, Allison N.; Creer, Sarah D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
The current study examined the extent to which the cohesion detected in readers' constructed responses to multiple documents was predictive of persuasive, source-based essay quality. Participants (N=95) completed multiple-documents reading tasks wherein they were prompted to think-aloud, self-explain, or evaluate the sources while reading a set of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Connected Discourse, Reader Response, 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, Reading Processes, Memory, Schemata (Cognition)
Nie, Bruce; Deacon, Hélène; Fyshe, Alona; Epp, Carrie Demmans – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
A child's ability to understand text (reading comprehension) can greatly impact both their ability to learn in the classroom and their future contributions to society. Reading comprehension draws on oral language; behavioural measures of knowledge at the word and sentence levels have been shown to be related to children's reading comprehension. In…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Word Order, Sentence Structure, Grade 3
Nicula, Bogdan; Perret, Cecile A.; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Theories of discourse argue that comprehension depends on the coherence of the learner's mental representation. Our aim is to create a reliable automated representation to estimate readers' level of comprehension based on different productions, namely self-explanations and answers to open-ended questions. Previous work relied on Cohesion Network…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Automation, Artificial Intelligence
Botarleanu, Robert-Mihai; Dascalu, Mihai; Allen, Laura K.; Crossley, Scott Andrew; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Text summarization is an effective reading comprehension strategy. However, summary evaluation is complex and must account for various factors including the summary and the reference text. This study examines a corpus of approximately 3,000 summaries based on 87 reference texts, with each summary being manually scored on a 4-point Likert scale.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Scoring, Natural Language Processing, Computer Software
Botarleanu, Robert-Mihai; Dascalu, Mihai; Crossley, Scott Andrew; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
A key writing skill is the capability to clearly convey desired meaning using available linguistic knowledge. Consequently, writers must select from a large array of idioms, vocabulary terms that are semantically equivalent, and discourse features that simultaneously reflect content and allow readers to grasp meaning. In many cases, a simplified…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Writing Skills, Difficulty Level, Reading Comprehension
McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Allen, Laura K.; Hinze, Scott R. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Open-ended "constructed responses" promote deeper processing of course materials. Further, evaluation of these explanations can yield important information about students' cognition. This study examined how students' constructed responses, generated at different points during learning, relate to their later comprehension outcomes.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Prediction, Responses, College Students
Subramonyam, Hariharan; Seifert, Colleen; Shah, Priti; Adar, Eytan – Grantee Submission, 2020
Learning from text is a "constructive" activity in which sentence-level information is combined by the reader to build coherent mental models. With increasingly complex texts, forming a mental model becomes challenging due to a lack of background knowledge, and limits in working memory and attention. To address this, we are taught…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Natural Language Processing, Reading Strategies, Educational Technology
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
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
Nicula, Bogdan; Perret, Cecile A.; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Open-ended comprehension questions are a common type of assessment used to evaluate how well students understand one of multiple documents. Our aim is to use natural language processing (NLP) to infer the level and type of inferencing within readers' answers to comprehension questions using linguistic and semantic features within their responses.…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Taxonomy, Responses, Semantics
Balyan, Renu; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2017
This study examined how machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) techniques can be leveraged to assess the interpretive behavior that is required for successful literary text comprehension. We compared the accuracy of seven different machine learning classification algorithms in predicting human ratings of student essays about…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Literature
Balyan, Renu; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; McNamara, Danielle S. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
This study examined how machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) techniques can be leveraged to assess the interpretive behavior that is required for successful literary text comprehension. We compared the accuracy of seven different machine learning classification algorithms in predicting human ratings of student essays about…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Literature