Empowering Educators via Language Technology

This course explores the use of natural language processing (NLP) to support educators, by discovering, measuring, and analyzing high-leverage teaching practices. Topics include computational social science methods, ethics, bias and fairness, automated scoring, causal analyses, large language models, among others. Engaging with relevant papers, students will work towards a final project using NLP methods and a critical social scientific lens. Projects are pitched to a jury of educators at the end of the course.