Can Automated Feedback Improve Teachers’ Uptake of Student Ideas?

Researchers from Stanford University, Harvard University, and University of Maryland share their findings.

How teaching and learning change when teachers use AI technology to gather feedback on their uptake of student contributions, a high-leverage teaching practice that supports dialogic instruction and makes students feel heard.

Technology used in TeachFX improves instructor uptake of student contribution by

Providing consistent, individualized feedback to teachers is essential for improving instruction but can be prohibitively resource intensive in most educational contexts. We conduct a randomized controlled trial as part of an online computer science course, Code in Place (n=1,136 instructors), to evaluate the effectiveness of the feedback tool. We find that the tool improves instructors’ uptake of student contributions by 24% and present suggestive evidence that our tool also improves students’ satisfaction with the course. These results demonstrate the promise of our tool to complement existing efforts in teachers’ professional development.

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