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title = "More than Words: Modeling What Teachers Praise and How They Praise It",
author = "Yoo, Jiseung and
Xu, Paiheng and
Liu, Jing",
editor = "Wilson, Joshua and
Ormerod, Christopher and
Beiting-Parrish, Magdalen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference ({AIME}-Con): Works in Progress",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States",
publisher = "National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)",
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pages = "472--482",
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abstract = "Praise is one of the most frequent evaluative acts in teaching, but what a praise turn communicates depends less on its words than on how it is delivered. We propose measuring delivery as self-deviation, comparing a praise turn against two references drawn from the speaker themselves, the teacher{'}s other praise turns (Global Reference) and the speech immediately surrounding the turn (Local Reference)."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T More than Words: Modeling What Teachers Praise and How They Praise It
%A Yoo, Jiseung
%A Xu, Paiheng
%A Liu, Jing
%Y Wilson, Joshua
%Y Ormerod, Christopher
%Y Beiting-Parrish, Magdalen
%S Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Works in Progress
%D 2026
%8 October
%I National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)
%C Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
%@ 979-8-9983004-1-7
%F yoo-etal-2026-words
%X Praise is one of the most frequent evaluative acts in teaching, but what a praise turn communicates depends less on its words than on how it is delivered. We propose measuring delivery as self-deviation, comparing a praise turn against two references drawn from the speaker themselves, the teacher’s other praise turns (Global Reference) and the speech immediately surrounding the turn (Local Reference).
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.aimecon-wip.59/
%P 472-482
Markdown (Informal)
[More than Words: Modeling What Teachers Praise and How They Praise It](https://aclanthology.org/2026.aimecon-wip.59/) (Yoo et al., AIME-Con 2026)
ACL
- Jiseung Yoo, Paiheng Xu, and Jing Liu. 2026. More than Words: Modeling What Teachers Praise and How They Praise It. In Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Works in Progress, pages 472–482, Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).