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Direct linkBogdan Nicula; Mihai Dascalu; Tracy Arner; Renu Balyan; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Text comprehension is an essential skill in today's information-rich world, and self-explanation practice helps students improve their understanding of complex texts. This study was centered on leveraging open-source Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically FLAN-T5, to automatically assess the comprehension strategies employed by readers while…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Language Processing, Models, STEM Education
Bogdan Nicula; Marilena Panaite; Tracy Arner; Renu Balyan; Mihai Dascalu; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Self-explanation practice is an effective method to support students in better understanding complex texts. This study focuses on automatically assessing the comprehension strategies employed by readers while understanding STEM texts. Data from 3 datasets (N = 11,833) with self-explanations annotated on different comprehension strategies (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Metacognition, STEM Education
Stefan Ruseti; Mihai Dascalu; Amy M. Johnson; Renu Balyan; Kristopher J. Kopp; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2018
This study assesses the extent to which machine learning techniques can be used to predict question quality. An algorithm based on textual complexity indices was previously developed to assess question quality to provide feedback on questions generated by students within iSTART (an intelligent tutoring system that teaches reading strategies). In…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Artificial Intelligence, Networks, Classification
