Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach
<jats:p> Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues are urgent in education. We developed and evaluated a massive open online course ( N = 963) with embedded equity simulations that attempted to equip educators with equity teaching practices. Applying a structural topic model (STM)—a type o...
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| author | Littenberg-Tobias, Joshua Borneman, Elizabeth Reich, Justin |
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| description | <jats:p> Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues are urgent in education. We developed and evaluated a massive open online course ( N = 963) with embedded equity simulations that attempted to equip educators with equity teaching practices. Applying a structural topic model (STM)—a type of natural language processing (NLP)—we examined how participants with different equity attitudes responded in simulations. Over a sequence of four simulations, the simulation behavior of participants with less equitable beliefs converged to be more similar with the simulated behavior of participants with more equitable beliefs ( ES [effect size] = 1.08 SD). This finding was corroborated by overall changes in equity mindsets ( ES = 0.88 SD) and changed in self-reported equity-promoting practices ( ES = 0.32 SD). Digital simulations when combined with NLP offer a compelling approach to both teaching about DEI topics and formatively assessing learner behavior in large-scale learning environments. </jats:p> |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1443182023-01-10T15:52:00Z Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach Littenberg-Tobias, Joshua Borneman, Elizabeth Reich, Justin Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing <jats:p> Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues are urgent in education. We developed and evaluated a massive open online course ( N = 963) with embedded equity simulations that attempted to equip educators with equity teaching practices. Applying a structural topic model (STM)—a type of natural language processing (NLP)—we examined how participants with different equity attitudes responded in simulations. Over a sequence of four simulations, the simulation behavior of participants with less equitable beliefs converged to be more similar with the simulated behavior of participants with more equitable beliefs ( ES [effect size] = 1.08 SD). This finding was corroborated by overall changes in equity mindsets ( ES = 0.88 SD) and changed in self-reported equity-promoting practices ( ES = 0.32 SD). Digital simulations when combined with NLP offer a compelling approach to both teaching about DEI topics and formatively assessing learner behavior in large-scale learning environments. </jats:p> 2022-08-11T17:42:49Z 2022-08-11T17:42:49Z 2021 2022-08-11T17:37:04Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144318 Littenberg-Tobias, Joshua, Borneman, Elizabeth and Reich, Justin. 2021. "Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach." AERA Open, 7. en 10.1177/23328584211045685 AERA Open Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ application/pdf SAGE Publications Sage |
| spellingShingle | Littenberg-Tobias, Joshua Borneman, Elizabeth Reich, Justin Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach |
| title | Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach |
| title_full | Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach |
| title_fullStr | Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach |
| title_short | Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach |
| title_sort | measuring equity promoting behaviors in digital teaching simulations a topic modeling approach |
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