Publications


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Instructional Measurement


The NCTE transcripts: a dataset of elementary math classroom transcripts


Dorottya Demszky, Heather Hill

arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11772, arXiv, 2023 May


Computationally identifying funneling and focusing questions in classroom discourse


Sterling Alic, Dorottya Demszky, Zid Mancenido, Jing Liu, Heather Hill, Dan Jurafsky

arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.04715, arXiv, 2022


Measuring teaching practices at scale: a novel application of text-as-data methods


Jing Liu, Julie Cohen

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, vol. 43, 2021 Dec, pp. 587-614


Measuring conversational uptake: a case study on student-teacher interactions


Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu, Zid Mancenido, Julie Cohen, Heather Hill, Dan Jurafsky, Tatsunori Hashimoto

arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.03873, arXiv, 2021 Jun


Unpacking high-quality teaching: measuring teachers’ uptake of student ideas using computational linguistic analysis


Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu, Heather C. Hill

APPAM Fall Research Conference, APPAM, measurement, 2020


ASR


Continued Pretraining for Domain Adaptation of Wav2vec 2.0 in Automatic Speech Recognition for Elementary Math Classroom Settings


Ahmed Adel Attia, Dorottya Demszky, Tolulope Ogunremi, Jing Liu, Carol Espy-Wilson

arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.13018., 2024


Kid-Whisper: Towards Bridging the Performance Gap in Automatic Speech Recognition for Children VS. Adults


Ahmed Adel Attia, Jing Liu, Wei Ai, Dorottya Demszky, Carol Espy-Wilson

arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07927, 2023


Application & Evaluation


Automated Feedback Improves Teachers’ Questioning Quality in Brick-and-Mortar Classrooms: Opportunities for Further Enhancement


Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu, Heather C. Hill, Shyamoli Sanghi, Ariel Chung

Computers & Education, 2024


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


Paiheng Xu, Jing Liu, Nathan Jones, Julie Cohen, Wei Ai

arXiv, NAACL 2024, 2024


Improving Teachers’ Questioning Quality through Automated Feedback: A Mixed-Methods Randomized Controlled Trial in Brick-and-Mortar Classrooms


Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu, Heather C. Hill, Shyamoli Sanghi, Ariel Chung

EdWorkingPaper, 2023, pp. 23-875


Empowering educators via language technology


Dorottya (Dora) Demszky, Jeffrey B. Bush, Sidney K. D’Mello, Jennifer Jacobs, Isabelle Hau, Heather Hill, Jing Liu, Susanna Loeb, Bethanie Maples, Kylie Peppler, Rhea Pokorny, Matthew Rascoff, Jenny Robinson, David Yeager, Laura Wentworth

2023


M-powering teachers: natural language processing powered feedback improves 1:1 instruction and student outcomes


Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu

ACM Conference on Learning, ACM, app, Copenhagen Denmark, 2023 Jul, pp. 59-69


Can automated feedback improve teachers’ uptake of student ideas? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in a large-scale online course


Dorottya Demszky, Jing Liu, Heather C. Hill, Dan Jurafsky, Chris Piech

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, app, 2023 May