Content Analysis of Textbooks via Natural Language Processing: Findings on Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Texas U.S. History Textbooks

Cutting-edge data science techniques can shed new light on fundamental questions in educational research. We apply techniques from natural language processing (lexicons, word embeddings, topic models) to 15 U.S. history textbooks widely used in Texas between 2015 and 2017, studying their depiction o...

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Main Authors: Li Lucy, Dorottya Demszky, Patricia Bromley, Dan Jurafsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-07-01
Series:AERA Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858420940312