ERIC Number: EJ1436326
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3737
EISSN: EISSN-1935-1062
Can Automated Feedback Improve Teachers' Uptake of Student Ideas? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in a Large-Scale Online Course
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v46 n3 p483-505 2024
Providing consistent, individualized feedback to teachers is essential for improving instruction but can be prohibitively resource-intensive in most educational contexts. We develop M-Powering Teachers, an automated tool based on natural language processing to give teachers feedback on their uptake of student contributions, a high-leverage dialogic teaching practice that makes students feel heard. We conduct a randomized controlled trial in an online computer science course (N = 1,136 instructors), to evaluate the effectiveness of our tool. We find that M-Powering Teachers improves instructors' uptake of student contributions by 13% and present suggestive evidence that it also improves students' satisfaction with the course and assignment completion. These results demonstrate the promise of M-Powering Teachers to complement existing efforts in teachers' professional development.
Descriptors: Online Courses, Automation, Feedback (Response), Large Group Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Natural Language Processing, Introductory Courses, Programming, Universities, Computer Science Education, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California (Stanford)
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