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Julie Cohen

2 accepted papers

2024

The Promises and Pitfalls of Using Language Models to Measure Instruction Quality in Education

NAACL 2024long

Assessing instruction quality is a fundamental component of any improvement efforts in the education system. However, traditional manual assessments are expensive, subjective, and heavily dependent on observers’ expertise and idiosyncratic factors, preventing teachers from getting timely and frequen…

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2021

Measuring Conversational Uptake: A Case Study on Student-Teacher Interactions

ACL 2021long

In conversation, uptake happens when a speaker builds on the contribution of their interlocutor by, for example, acknowledging, repeating or reformulating what they have said. In education, teachers’ uptake of student contributions has been linked to higher student achievement. Yet measuring and imp…