White Learners in North America

Bridgeman et al. (2009) pdf

• Automated scoring models for evaluating English essays, or e-rater
• The score difference between human rater and e-rater was significantly smaller for 11th grade essays written by White and African American students than other groups

Jiang & Pardos (2021) pdf

• Predicting university course grades using LSTM
• Roughly equal accuracy across racial groups
• Slightly better accuracy (~1%) across racial groups when including race in model

Zhang et al. (in press) [1]

• Detecting student use of self-regulated learning (SRL) in mathematical problem-solving process
• For each SRL-related detector, relatively small differences in AUC were observed across racial/ethnic groups.
• No racial/ethnic group consistently had best-performing detectors