ERIC Number: EJ1344695
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Sep
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0007-1013
EISSN: EISSN-1467-8535
An Empirical Analysis of High School Students' Practices of Modelling with Unstructured Data
Jiang, Shiyan; Nocera, Amato; Tatar, Cansu; Yoder, Michael Miller; Chao, Jie; Wiedemann, Kenia; Finzer, William; Rosé, Carolyn P.
British Journal of Educational Technology, v53 n5 p1114-1133 Sep 2022
To date, many AI initiatives (eg, AI4K12, CS for All) developed standards and frameworks as guidance for educators to create accessible and engaging Artificial Intelligence (AI) learning experiences for K-12 students. These efforts revealed a significant need to prepare youth to gain a fundamental understanding of how intelligence is created, applied, and its potential to perpetuate bias and unfairness. This study contributes to the growing interest in K-12 AI education by examining student learning of modelling real-world text data. Four students from an Advanced Placement computer science classroom at a public high school participated in this study. Our qualitative analysis reveals that the students developed nuanced and in-depth understandings of how text classification models--a type of AI application--are trained. Specifically, we found that in modelling texts, students: (1) drew on their social experiences and cultural knowledge to create predictive features, (2) engineered predictive features to address model errors, (3) described model learning patterns from training data and (4) reasoned about noisy features when comparing models. This study contributes to an initial understanding of student learning of modelling unstructured data and offers implications for scaffolding in-depth reasoning about model decision making.
Descriptors: High School Students, Data, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Models, Advanced Placement, Computer Science Education, Classification, Prediction, Error Patterns, Decision Making
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: DRL1949110