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Teacher-guided Crowdsourcing

#Expert-facilitated Crowdsourcing, #Teachersourcing
#Teacher customization,#Social Computing, #Computer-supported Cooperative Work

With the goal of increasing teachers’ satisfaction and sustaining the relevance of materials in intelligent tutoring system, without imposing too much time on the busy teachers, in this recent research, I studied how teachers might guide the crowd to perform improvement on existing instructional materials (on-demand hints) in a math intelligent tutoring system.

Applying Rhetorical Structure Theory to Student Essays for Providing Automated Writing Feedback

#Feedback Automation
#K-12 Writing Education

In this research, we partner with Turnitin, Inc., to automate the structural feedback for student essays, specifically for the genre of argumentative writing. This research is funded by NSF and Schimdt Family Foundation.

Educational Game for Early Literacy -Sprinkle

# Independent Game Development, # Natural Language Processing,
# Speech Recognition, # Python Programming

This is an educational game I developed, aiming at improving kids’ early literacy, with gamified activities including pronouncing words and sorting sentences.

Intelligent Tutoring System for Practical Rhetorical Structure Theory

#Intelligent Tutoring System Development, #Rhetorical Structure Theory

This is a intelligent tutoring system I built, targeting at teaching Rhetorical Structural Theory, a linguistics framework frequently used in information retrieval.

Cooperative Learning Tool: Learn with your peer!

#Learning Experience Design, #Instructional Design,
#Cooperative Learning, #Peer Learning

This is a platform where you can learn with your peers in a Jigsaw method.

Intelligent Tutoring System in STEM Area

#Intelligent Tutoring Systems Development, #STEM Education, #Front-end programming

Here are some intelligent tutoring systems that I built in STEM area, under the help of Dr. Aleven and Jonathan in Carnegie Mellon University.

Language Transfer of Mandarin on English Phonetics Learning

#Language Transfer, #Second Language Learning
#Phonetics and Phonology, #Techonology for K-12 Education

My bachelor’s thesis focus on language transfer, especially negative transfer of Mandarin on English phonetics aquisition. I conducted acoustic experiment on 39 7th-grade students and analyzed the spectrogram using the software Praat. I studied it on both segmental and suprasegmental phoneme levels how students’ pronunciation of mandarin and Min dialect might affect their English pronunciation, in aspects of vowels, consonants and intonation and pitch.

Lesson Design for Argumentative Writing Course

#Instructional Design, #Teaching English Writing
#K-12 Education

This is a four-week course design made for Grade 11-12 students, in topic of Argumentative Writing.

Applying Rhetorical Structure Theory to Student Essays for Providing Automated Writing Feedback

Published in NAACL DISRPT workshop, 2019

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Recommended citation: Shiyan Jiang, Kexin Yang, Chandrakumari Suvarna, Pooja Casula, Mingtong Zhang, Carolyn Penstein Rose. (2019). "Applying Rhetorical Structure Theory to Student Essays for Providing Automated Writing Feedback." NAACL-DISRPT workshop.

Applying Rhetorical Structure Theory to Student Essays for Providing Automated Writing Feedback

Published: June 06, 2019

At NAACL-HLT 2019, I presented our work “Applying RST for Automated Structural Feedback for Student Essays” at DISRPT workshop.
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Excerpt

We present a package of annotation resources, including annotation guideline, flowchart, and an Intelligent Tutoring System for training human annotators. These resources can be used to apply Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) to essays written by students in K-12 schools. Furthermore, we highlight the great potential of using RST to provide automated feedback for improving writing quality across genres.

Teaching experience 1

Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

This is a description of a teaching experience. You can use markdown like any other post.

Teaching experience 2

Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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