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How do middle school students think about climate change?

Abstract

We use natural language processing (NLP) to train an automated scoring model to assess students' reasoning on how to slow climate change. We use the insights from scoring over 1000 explanations to design a knowledge integration intervention and test it in three classrooms. The intervention supported students to distinguish relevant evidence, improving connections between ideas in a revised explanation. We discuss next steps for using the NLP model to support teachers and students in classrooms.

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