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022 _a0021-9584
100 _aHoar, Benjamin B.
245 _aEnhancing the Value of Large-Enrollment Course Evaluation Data Using Sentiment Analysis
_b(Journal Article)
260 _aWashington DC
_b: American Chemical Society
_c, 2023
300 _a4085–4091p.
440 _aJournal of Chemical Society
_v, Volume 100: Number 10, October 2023
505 _a***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________***
520 _aAbstract: In education, space exists for a tool that valorizes generic student course evaluation formats by organizing and recapitulating students’ views on the pedagogical practices to which they are exposed. Often, student opinions about a course are gathered using a general comment section that does not solicit feedback concerning specific course components. Herein, we show a novel approach to summarizing and organizing students’ opinions as a function of the language used in their course evaluations, specifically focusing on developing software that outputs actionable, specific feedback about course components in large-enrollment STEM contexts. Our approach augments existing course review formats, which rely heavily on unstructured text data, with a tool built from Python, LaTeX, and Google’s Natural Language API. The result is quantitative, summative sentiment analysis reports that have general and component-specific sections, aiming to address some of the challenges faced by educators when teaching large physical science courses.
650 _aProfessional Development| Administration Issues| Student-Centered Learning| Machine Learning
700 _aRamachandran, Roshini | Levis-Fitzgerald, Marc | Sparck, Erin M. | Wu, Ke | Liu, Chong
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00258
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