Journal
SCIENCE EDUCATION
Volume 103, Issue 3, Pages 590-622Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/sce.21504
Keywords
automated text scoring; formative feedback; scientific argumentation; uncertainty
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- National Science Foundation [DRL-1418019, DRL-1220756]
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This paper describes HASbot, an automated text scoring and real-time feedback system designed to support student revision of scientific arguments. Students submit open-ended text responses to explain how their data support claims and how the limitations of their data affect the uncertainty of their explanations. HASbot automatically scores these text responses and returns the scores with feedback to students. Data were collected from 343 middle- and high-school students taught by nine teachers across seven states in the United States. A mixed methods design was applied to investigate (a) how students' utilization of HASbot impacted their development of uncertainty-infused scientific arguments; (b) how students used feedback to revise their arguments, and (c) how the current design of HASbot supported or hindered students' revisions. Paired sample t tests indicate that students made significant gains from pretest to posttest in uncertainty-infused scientific argumentation, ES=1.52SD, p<0.001. Linear regression analysis results indicate that students' HASbot use significantly contributed to their posttest performance on uncertainty-infused scientific argumentation while gender, English language learner status, and prior computer experience did not. From the analysis of videos, we identified several affordances and limitations of HASbot.
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