Summary of The Promises and Pitfalls Of Using Language Models to Measure Instruction Quality in Education, by Paiheng Xu et al.
The Promises and Pitfalls of Using Language Models to Measure Instruction Quality in Education
by Paiheng Xu, Jing Liu, Nathan Jones, Julie Cohen, Wei Ai
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to assessing instruction quality is proposed, leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to evaluate multiple high-inference instructional practices in various educational settings. This study focuses on teachers’ utterances and compares the performance of pretrained Language Models (PLMs) with human raters. The results indicate that PLMs are effective for simpler teaching practices but struggle with more complex ones, suggesting limitations in current NLP techniques. However, using teacher utterances as input yields strong results for student-centered variables. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Teachers want to know how well they’re doing, and this study shows a new way to figure it out! Instead of relying on expensive and subjective methods, researchers used special computer programs (NLP) to look at what teachers say in class. They found that these programs can be good for simple things like checking if students are paying attention, but not so great for more complicated teaching methods. The results also show that just listening to what teachers say is useful for understanding how they’re helping students learn. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Inference » Natural language processing » Nlp
