@inproceedings{wang-etal-2023-sight,
title = "{SIGHT}: A Large Annotated Dataset on Student Insights Gathered from Higher Education Transcripts",
author = "Wang, Rose and
Wirawarn, Pawan and
Goodman, Noah and
Demszky, Dorottya",
editor = {Kochmar, Ekaterina and
Burstein, Jill and
Horbach, Andrea and
Laarmann-Quante, Ronja and
Madnani, Nitin and
Tack, Ana{\"\i}s and
Yaneva, Victoria and
Yuan, Zheng and
Zesch, Torsten},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.27",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.27",
pages = "315--351",
abstract = "Lectures are a learning experience for both students and teachers. Students learn from teachers about the subject material, while teachers learn from students about how to refine their instruction. Unfortunately, online student feedback is unstructured and abundant, making it challenging for teachers to learn and improve. We take a step towards tackling this challenge. First, we contribute a dataset for studying this problem: SIGHT is a large dataset of 288 math lecture transcripts and 15,784 comments collected from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) YouTube channel. Second, we develop a rubric for categorizing feedback types using qualitative analysis. Qualitative analysis methods are powerful in uncovering domain-specific insights, however they are costly to apply to large data sources. To overcome this challenge, we propose a set of best practices for using large language models (LLMs) to cheaply classify the comments at scale. We observe a striking correlation between the model{'}s and humans{'} annotation: Categories with consistent human annotations (0.9 inter-rater reliability, IRR) also display higher human-model agreement (0.7), while categories with less consistent human annotations (0.7-0.8 IRR) correspondingly demonstrate lower human-model agreement (0.3-0.5). These techniques uncover useful student feedback from thousands of comments, costing around {\$}0.002 per comment. We conclude by discussing exciting future directions on using online student feedback and improving automated annotation techniques for qualitative research.",
}
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T SIGHT: A Large Annotated Dataset on Student Insights Gathered from Higher Education Transcripts
%A Wang, Rose
%A Wirawarn, Pawan
%A Goodman, Noah
%A Demszky, Dorottya
%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Burstein, Jill
%Y Horbach, Andrea
%Y Laarmann-Quante, Ronja
%Y Madnani, Nitin
%Y Tack, Anaïs
%Y Yaneva, Victoria
%Y Yuan, Zheng
%Y Zesch, Torsten
%S Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)
%D 2023
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Toronto, Canada
%F wang-etal-2023-sight
%X Lectures are a learning experience for both students and teachers. Students learn from teachers about the subject material, while teachers learn from students about how to refine their instruction. Unfortunately, online student feedback is unstructured and abundant, making it challenging for teachers to learn and improve. We take a step towards tackling this challenge. First, we contribute a dataset for studying this problem: SIGHT is a large dataset of 288 math lecture transcripts and 15,784 comments collected from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) YouTube channel. Second, we develop a rubric for categorizing feedback types using qualitative analysis. Qualitative analysis methods are powerful in uncovering domain-specific insights, however they are costly to apply to large data sources. To overcome this challenge, we propose a set of best practices for using large language models (LLMs) to cheaply classify the comments at scale. We observe a striking correlation between the model’s and humans’ annotation: Categories with consistent human annotations (0.9 inter-rater reliability, IRR) also display higher human-model agreement (0.7), while categories with less consistent human annotations (0.7-0.8 IRR) correspondingly demonstrate lower human-model agreement (0.3-0.5). These techniques uncover useful student feedback from thousands of comments, costing around $0.002 per comment. We conclude by discussing exciting future directions on using online student feedback and improving automated annotation techniques for qualitative research.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.27
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.27
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.27
%P 315-351
Markdown (Informal)
[SIGHT: A Large Annotated Dataset on Student Insights Gathered from Higher Education Transcripts](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.27) (Wang et al., BEA 2023)
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