Essay content and style are strongly related to household income and SAT scores: Evidence from 60,000 undergraduate applications

AJ Alvero, S Giebel, B Gebre-Medhin, AL Antonio… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
There is substantial evidence of the relationship between household income and
achievement on the standardized tests often required for college admissions, yet little …

Moral machines or tyranny of the majority? A systematic review on predictive bias in education

L Li, L Sha, Y Li, M Raković, J Rong… - … learning analytics and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Machine Learning (ML) techniques have been increasingly adopted to support various
activities in education, including being applied in important contexts such as college …

Should college dropout prediction models include protected attributes?

R Yu, H Lee, RF Kizilcec - Proceedings of the eighth ACM conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Early identification of college dropouts can provide tremendous value for improving student
success and institutional effectiveness, and predictive analytics are increasingly used for this …

Cross-institutional transfer learning for educational models: Implications for model performance, fairness, and equity

J Gardner, R Yu, Q Nguyen, C Brooks… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Modern machine learning increasingly supports paradigms that are multi-institutional (using
data from multiple institutions during training) or cross-institutional (using models from …

Validity Arguments for AI‐Based Automated Scores: Essay Scoring as an Illustration

S Ferrara, S Qunbar - Journal of Educational Measurement, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we argue that automated scoring engines should be transparent and construct
relevant—that is, as much as is currently feasible. Many current automated scoring engines …

Augmenting holistic review in university admission using natural language processing for essays and recommendation letters

J Lee, B Thymes, J Zhou, T Joachims… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
University admission at many highly selective institutions uses a holistic review process,
where all aspects of the application, including protected attributes (eg, race, gender) …

[HTML][HTML] Application essays and the ritual production of merit in us selective admissions

B Gebre-Medhin, S Giebel, AJ Alvero, BW Domingue… - Poetics, 2022 - Elsevier
US colleges and universities are defined by their exclusivity, and the most prestigious
schools reject most of those who apply. Yet these same schools also widely advertise their …

Forecasting undergraduate majors: A natural language approach

D Lang, A Wang, N Dalal, A Paepcke… - AERA …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Committing to a major is a fateful step in an undergraduate education, yet the relationship
between courses taken early in an academic career and ultimate major issuance remains …

[HTML][HTML] Linguistic, cultural, and narrative capital: computational and human readings of transfer admissions essays

AJ Alvero, J Pal, KM Moussavian - Journal of Computational Social …, 2022 - Springer
Variation in college application materials related to social stratification is a contentious topic
in social science and national discourse in the United States. This line of research has also …

Validity arguments meet artificial intelligence in innovative educational assessment

DW Dorsey, HR Michaels - Journal of Educational …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We have dramatically advanced our ability to create rich, complex, and effective
assessments across a range of uses through technology advancement. Artificial Intelligence …