Yi Song

This project will identify the malleable factors that predict the development of middle-school students' argumentative writing skills by exploring the students' abilities to generate oral and written arguments. Understanding and writing arguments is an important but difficult skill to acquire. However, research suggests that well-structured interactions, such as guided critical discussions, can help middle-grade students develop these skills, but it is not clear which student and instruction...

In this project, the researchers will collaboratively develop, refine, and validate an artificial intelligence (AI) supported classroom assessment tool to measure middle-school students' reasoning patterns when engaging in the practice of scientific argumentation about ecosystem phenomena. The AI-supported assessments will target the measurement of key components required by the practice of scientific argumentation and support various students' reasoning patterns when students engage in argu...