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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation

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Housed at the University of Maryland, EDSI shapes the future of education through data science, artificial intelligence (AI), and innovative research.

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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
💻 Maryland wants more CS classes, but who's teaching them New research traces how flexible staffing strategies are shaping (and straining) the state's high school CS teacher workforce as demand outpaces supply. 🔍: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1469
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 School discipline isn't just suspensions. When racial disparities are mapped across the full spectrum of disciplinary actions. Disparities show up earlier and more often, than headline suspension numbers suggest. 🔍: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1520
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
📬 Our latest newsletter is out! In this edition, we shared updates on exciting new grants, education technology evaluations, and public goods. Read the full newsletter here: mailchi.mp/0b3857105803...
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EDSI's Summer Newsletter
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
⚠️ LLMs are being used to assess classroom instruction, but are they reliable? Nam & Demszky find that irrelevant teacher context shifts quality scores, even on identical transcripts. Direct Preference Optimization shows promise as a fix! 🔍: arxiv.org/abs/2604.02585
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
📘 Can automated feedback make coaching more powerful? M-Powering Teachers tested AI feedback in real math coaching — and early findings say yes. Coaches saved time, dug deeper into evidence & sparked richer teacher reflection. 🔍: learningforward.org/journal/lear...
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AI-enhanced Coaching: What Early Studies Show
Pilot studies suggest collecting and summarizing data may be some of the most helpful ways for instructional coaches to use AI.
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🚀 Our Center Director Dr. Jing Liu will speak at the @aefpweb.bsky.social Connects Webinar Series on AI in Education on May 20, 2-3 p.m. EST. Registration link: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...
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Education, Research, and Artificial Intelligence: Reflections from the AEFP Community
The session will invite panelists to share how they see AI shaping research, education, and the work that we do. We are especially interested in perspectives on questions such as: How might AI change ...
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📘Can AI support instructional coaching? A new study of math coaches using automated feedback found it can save time, surface evidence, and deepen coaching conversations, but with one big pause: accuracy, especially around student talk. 🔍: edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
📐 Teachers’ participatory design of digital math tasks matters. Engaging teachers in game-based mathematical task design supports deeper mathematical reasoning, pedagogical sensemaking, and integration of content and student knowledge. 🔍Full paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Teacher Learning with and About Digital Mathematical Task Design - Technology, Knowledge and Learning
Technology, Knowledge and Learning - In this qualitative inquiry, we explored teachers’ experiences and sensemaking processes with digital mathematical task design (or tool-based math problem...
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Are LLMs revolutionary tools or do they revive something much older? EDSI's Faculty Affiliate @scribnerumcp.bsky.social argues that AI classrooms echo medieval scholasticism: structured dialogue and efficiency -often at the expense of human judgment. 🔍: www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/12/larg...
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Large Language Models and the New Scholasticism - Front Porch Republic
In trying to systematize relationships between words and humans, both medieval scholasticism and today’s automated dialogue sterilize the sources of human vitality.
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📊 New research: participatory design in data science education works. Centering students’ interests and voices reveals what truly engages them, shaping curricula that are relevant, meaningful, and student-centered. 🔍 Full paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Participatory Design as a Mechanism for Informing an Interest-Driven Data Science Curriculum | ACM Transactions on Computing Education
Objectives: Interest plays a central role in learning by shaping what, how, when, where, and why learning occurs. In data science education, where complex concepts, lived experiences, and practical sk...
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🎧 Training AI for classrooms is tough We introduce SimClass, a dataset with simulated classroom speech and game-engine–generated classroom noise. It closely matches real classroom conditions and helps build robust speech recognition models for education and beyond. 🔍: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.09206
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New open-source Python library alert 🚨 Meet pairadigm, built by our Data Scientist Michael Chrzan. It uses concept-guided pairwise comparisons to help LLMs reliably measure abstract traits like reasoning, creativity, toxicity & emotion at scale. 🔍: github.com/mlchrzan/pai...
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GitHub - mlchrzan/pairadigm: Concept-Guided Chain-of-Thought (CGCoT) pairwise annotation tool for systematic text evaluation using LLMs. Generate breakdowns, compare items, compute scores, and validat...
Concept-Guided Chain-of-Thought (CGCoT) pairwise annotation tool for systematic text evaluation using LLMs. Generate breakdowns, compare items, compute scores, and validate against human judgments....
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📬 Our latest newsletter just dropped! Catch up on new research, upcoming projects, and insights from EDSI. mailchi.mp/7e09f4292bdc... Didn't get it in your inbox? Subscribe here to stay in the loop: edsi.umd.edu/get-involved
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🚨 New opportunity: Help build open-source speech recognition AI 🎙️📚 @drivendata.org is hosting a data science competition to advance automatic speech recognition (ASR) for early education. Two tracks, real impact, and $120K in prizes. Learn more & compete: kidsasr.drivendata.org
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On Top of Pasketti: Children’s Speech Recognition Challenge
Develop cutting-edge ASR algorithms specifically for children's speech to advance early education assessments and teaching tools.
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🔊 New Research: Vocal Entrainment in Conversations This study shows how speech alignment (entrainment) enhances trust & rapport in multi-party talks. Using AI models, it predicts speech patterns & reveals early signs of cooperation or conflict. 🔍: repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150...
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Thank you for highlighting our study findings@ The full paper can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
📢 Introducing EduCoder: an open-source tool for annotating educational dialogue at the utterance level. Built for classroom complexity custom codebooks, open + categorical tags, context-aware, & annotator calibration. 🔍: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05385
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🧮 What makes math teaching high-quality? Our team is using real classroom data + AI to find out. Backed by a $4.5M Gates & Walton grant, insights could transform teacher training, edtech, and policy by grounding them in evidence from real classrooms. terp.umd.edu/ai-goes-to-s...
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AI Goes to School for Math-Instruction Study | Terp Magazine
Researchers to Create Database of A+ Classroom Teaching
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Great teachers never stop learning! 🌱📚 The M-Powering Teachers Project uses AI to provide real-time, personalized feedback to educators, making learning more dynamic and supportive for teachers. Check out this video to learn more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBin... #EdTech #AIinEd #TeacherLearning
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AI at Maryland | M-Powering Teachers
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
📄 New White Paper: A Framework for High-Quality Education Data in the Age of AI EDSI & RPPL interviewed 22 experts to: 🔹 Identify data best practices 🔹 Inform ethical, practical AI use 🔹 Ensure new education data reflect the nuanced realities of classrooms 🔍 Read more: edsi.umd.edu/publications...
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A Framework for Building High-Quality Education Data for R&D in the Age of AI: The EDSI Dataset and Expert Insights | Center for Educational Data Science and Innovation
Almost three years after ChatGPT was released, AI has gone from a buzzword to a reality, now reshaping nearly every aspect of human lives. In education, AI has generated enthusiasm for its potential t...
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Accelerate - The National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning @accelerate-us.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
📣 Congratulations to Accelerate's 2025 awardees for our Call for Effective Technology and Evidence for Impact grant programs! accelerate.us/press-releas...
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🚀 Excited to team up with @accelerate-us.bsky.social's Call for Effective Technology! We are evaluating 2 edtech tools, Podsie, & Goblins, during the 2025–26 year. We hope to identify and scale strategies that improve student learning💡 🔍The press release: rb.gy/jbdcup #EdTech
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Press Release: Accelerate Awards Grants to Boost Student Outcomes with Evidence-Based Tutoring and Technology in Classrooms Nationwide - Accelerate
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
📬 Our latest newsletter just dropped! Catch up on new research, upcoming projects, and insights from EDSI: mailchi.mp/54a34c8bc857... Didn't get it in your inbox? Subscribe here to stay in the loop: edsi.umd.edu/get-involved
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EDSI Fall 2025 Newsletter
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🗣️ Training speech models when good data is scarce? Try Weakly Supervised Pretraining (WSP) We develop a new approach, (WSP), to teach automated speech recognition (ASR) models to learn from the noisy stuff first, then fine-tune with accurate data. 🔍 Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17088 #ChildASR
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From Weak Labels to Strong Results: Utilizing 5,000 Hours of Noisy Classroom Transcripts with Minimal Accurate Data
Recent progress in speech recognition has relied on models trained on vast amounts of labeled data. However, classroom Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) faces the real-world challenge of abundant wea...
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🚨 Can AI coach teachers in real classrooms? A new RCT with 224 Utah math & science teachers shows AI-powered feedback boosted use of deep, student-focused “focusing questions” by 20%! 📈 🔍 Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EdTech #AIinEducation #TeacherPD #EdResearch
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Automated feedback improves teachers’ questioning quality in brick-and-mortar classrooms: Opportunities for further enhancement
AI-powered professional learning tools that provide teachers with individualized feedback on their instruction have proven effective at improving inst…
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🎤 🗣️ ICYMI: On Sept 10th, we co-hosted the Inaugural International Workshop on Rethinking Children’s ASR for Education at UBuffalo. The event focused on advancing ethical & effective ASR tools for children’s learning. We are excited to pave the road for ASR innovation! Learn more: lnkd.in/e2BKDPUv
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🎤 Can kids be reliably recognized in noisy classrooms? Saba Tabatabaee & colleagues find that finetuning speaker verification models with augmented children's speech slashes error rates by up to 50%. Smarter, noise-resilient ASR is within reach. 🔍 Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2505.20222 #ChildASR
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FT-Boosted SV: Towards Noise Robust Speaker Verification for English Speaking Classroom Environments
Creating Speaker Verification (SV) systems for classroom settings that are robust to classroom noises such as babble noise is crucial for the development of AI tools that assist educational environmen...
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
✅ That’s a wrap on EDSI’s Summer Co-Learning Series! From research-in-progress to thought-provoking discussions, our weekly seminars turned into powerful moments of learning, feedback & connection. Huge thanks to everyone who shared, showed up, and sparked ideas! 💡🍽️
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🎓 Can machine learning help provide equitable predictions for high school dropout? @anikaalam.bsky.social's dissertation digs deep into algorithmic bias, revealing how models can unintentionally disadvantage students from marginalized backgrounds. 🔍Read more: www.proquest.com/docview/3217...
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🚨 Can AI coach teachers in real classrooms? A new RCT with 224 Utah math & science teachers shows AI-powered feedback boosted use of deep, student-focused “focusing questions” by 20%! 📈 🔍 Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EdTech #AIinEducation #TeacherPD #EdResearch
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Automated feedback improves teachers’ questioning quality in brick-and-mortar classrooms: Opportunities for further enhancement
AI-powered professional learning tools that provide teachers with individualized feedback on their instruction have proven effective at improving inst…
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🏫📉 School closures are on the rise - but what if we could predict them years in advance? @thechrzanone.bsky.social & authors use machine learning to forecast mass school closures 5 years out, giving districts tools to act early and equitably. 🔍The full paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1210
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Deeper Roots Before the Storm: Utilizing Machine Learning to Alert School Districts of Permanent School Closures
The increasing rate of permanent school closures in U.S. public school districts presents unprecedented challenges for administrators and communities alike. This study develops an early-warning indica...
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🧠💬 Can AI really replicate the richness of human thought? Jiseung Yoo & @scribnerumcp.bsky.social explore what LLMs can’t do - and why K12 education must stay rooted in embodied, social, and self-aware learning. Human-centered teaching matters more than ever. 🔍: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
💡Proud to partner with Guilford County Schools & amplify practitioner voices in research! 📣 3 amazing GCS teachers - Rachel Beverly, Rachel Borden & Mitchelle McLeod - brought powerful voices at the Stanford Practitioner Voices Summit to explore how AI & language tech can reshape math education.
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
💻Access to high school computer science = higher earnings 💵 Students offered a CS class in high school earned 8% more at their first job — and up to 14% for low-income, Black, and female students. 🔍 Read the full paper on @annenberginstitute.bsky.social: edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🚀 Excited to team up with @UBuffalo’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science to host a workshop on automated speech recognition (ASR) in education! 🎙️📚 We'll dive into how ASR can support learning and provide hands-on training focused on children’s speech. #childASR #edtech
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Center for Educational Data Science & Innovation @edsi-umd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Welcome to the Center for Educational Data Science and Education (EDSI)! Launched in May, our center focuses on AI and data science to help all learners thrive in an AI age. Learn more about our center with this article: www.govtech.com/education/hi... #AIinEducation #edpolicy #edtech
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University of Maryland Opens Center for Ed-Tech Research
The university launched a new center this month aimed at collecting data and developing intentional, research-supported educational tools based on how students and educators are using AI in classrooms...
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