ERIC Number: ED592742
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 4
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Semi-Automatic Detection of Teacher Questions from Human-Transcripts of Audio in Live Classrooms
Blanchard, Nathaniel; Donnelly, Patrick J.; Olney, Andrew M.; Samei, Borhan; Ward, Brooke; Sun, Xiaoyi; Kelly, Sean; Nystrand, Martin; D'Mello, Sidney K.
International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (9th, Raleigh, NC, Jun 29-Jul 2, 2016)
We investigate automatic detection of teacher questions from automatically segmented human-transcripts of teacher audio recordings collected in live classrooms. Using a dataset of audio recordings from 11 teachers across 37 class sessions, we automatically segment teacher speech into individual teacher utterances and code each as containing a teacher question or not. We trained supervised machine learning models to detect questions using high-level natural language features extracted from human transcriptions of a random subset of 1,000 segmented utterances. The models were trained and validated independently of the teacher to ensure generalization to new teachers. We are able to detect questions with a weighted F[subscript 1] score of 0.66, suggesting the feasibility of question detection on automatically segmented audio from noisy classrooms. We discuss the possibility of using automatic speech recognition to replace the human transcripts with an eye towards providing automatic feedback to teachers. [For the full proceedings, see ED592609.]
Descriptors: Transcripts (Written Records), Nonprint Media, Automation, Classroom Communication, Middle School Teachers, Speech, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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Identifiers - Location: Wisconsin
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305A130030
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