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Automated Support to Scaffold Students’ Written Explanations in Science

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Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2022)

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In principle, educators can use writing to scaffold students’ understanding of increasingly complex science ideas. In practice, formative assessment of students’ science writing is very labor intensive. We present PyrEval+CR, an automated tool for formative assessment of middle school students’ science essays. It identifies each idea in a student’s science essay, and its importance in the curriculum.

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    PyrEval+CR is available at https://github.com/psunlpgroup/PyrEvalv2.

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NSF DRK12 2010351 and 2010483 funded this work.

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  1. The Pennsylvania State University, State College, 16801, USA

    Purushartha Singh, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Mohammad Wasih & ChanMin Kim

  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Xuesong Cang & Sadhana Puntambekar

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  1. Ateneo De Manila University, Quezon, Philippines

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  2. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

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Singh, P., Passonneau, R.J., Wasih, M., Cang, X., Kim, C., Puntambekar, S. (2022). Automated Support to Scaffold Students’ Written Explanations in Science. In: Rodrigo, M.M., Matsuda, N., Cristea, A.I., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13355. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11644-5_64

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