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ERIC Number: EJ1445133
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Oct
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0021-9584
EISSN: EISSN-1938-1328
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Enhancing the Value of Large-Enrollment Course Evaluation Data Using Sentiment Analysis
Benjamin B. Hoar; Roshini Ramachandran; Marc Levis-Fitzgerald; Erin M. Sparck; Ke Wu; Chong Liu
Journal of Chemical Education, v100 n10 p4085-4091 2023
In education, space exists for a tool that valorizes generic student course evaluation formats by organizing and recapitulating students' views on the pedagogical practices to which they are exposed. Often, student opinions about a course are gathered using a general comment section that does not solicit feedback concerning specific course components. Herein, we show a novel approach to summarizing and organizing students' opinions as a function of the language used in their course evaluations, specifically focusing on developing software that outputs actionable, specific feedback about course components in large-enrollment STEM contexts. Our approach augments existing course review formats, which rely heavily on unstructured text data, with a tool built from Python, LaTeX, and Google's Natural Language API. The result is quantitative, summative sentiment analysis reports that have general and component-specific sections, aiming to address some of the challenges faced by educators when teaching large physical science courses.
Division of Chemical Education, Inc. and ACS Publications Division of the American Chemical Society. 1155 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 800-227-5558; Tel: 202-872-4600; e-mail: eic@jce.acs.org; Web site: http://pubs.acs.org/jchemeduc
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Chemistry (CHE)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 2247426
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