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ERIC Number: ED616768
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Nov
Pages: 36
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Can Automated Feedback Improve Teachers' Uptake of Student Ideas? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in a Large-Scale Online Course. EdWorkingPaper No. 21-483
Demszky, Dorottya; Liu, Jing; Hill, Heather C.; Jurafsky, Dan; Piech, Chris
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Providing consistent, individualized feedback to teachers is essential for improving instruction but can be prohibitively resource intensive in most educational contexts. We develop an automated tool based on natural language processing to give teachers feedback on their uptake of student contributions, a high-leverage teaching practice that supports dialogic instruction and makes students feel heard. We conduct a randomized controlled trial as part of an online computer science course, Code in Place (n=1,136 instructors), to evaluate the effectiveness of the feedback tool. We find that the tool improves instructors' uptake of student contributions by 24% and present suggestive evidence that our tool also improves students' satisfaction with the course. These results demonstrate the promise of our tool to complement existing efforts in teachers' professional development. [The project was partially funded by the HAI Hoffman-Yee grant.]
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: AISR_Info@brown.edu; Web site: http://www.annenberginstitute.org
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
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