Dora Demszky

Assistant Professor

ddemszky@stanford.edu

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Assistant: Melissa Cromosini

Office: CERAS 536

Biography

Dr. Demszky is an Assistant Professor in Education Data Science at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. She works on developing natural language processing methods to support equitable and student-centered instruction. She has developed tools to give feedback to teachers on dialogic instructional practices, to analyze representation in textbooks, measure the presence of dialect features in text, among others. Dr Demszky has received her PhD in Linguistics at Stanford University, supervised by Dr Dan Jurafsky. Prior to her PhD, Dr. Demszky received a BA summa cum laude from Princeton University in Linguistics with a minor in Computer Science.

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Other Titles

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education
Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Computer Science

Program Affiliations

Learning Sciences and Technology Design (LSTD)

SHIPS (PhD)

SHIPS (PhD): Education Data Science

SHIPS (PhD): Educational Linguistics

(MS) EDS

Stanford Accelerator for Learning

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Research Interests

Curriculum and Instruction | Data Sciences | Social and Emotional Learning | Teachers and Teaching | Technology and Education

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Recent Publications

Tan, M., Mah, C., & Demszky, D. (2024). Reframing Authority: A Computational Measure of Power-Affirming Feedback on Student Writing. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELEVENTH ACM CONFERENCE ON LEARNING@SCALE, L@S 2024. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.

Demszky, D., Wang, R. E., Geraghty, S., & Yu, C. (2024). Does Feedback on Talk Time Increase Student Engagement? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform. FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEARNING ANALYTICS & KNOWLEDGE, LAK 2024. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.

Malik, R., Abdi, D., Wang, R., & Demszky, D. (2024). Scaling High-Leverage Curriculum Scaffolding in Middle-School Mathematics. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELEVENTH ACM CONFERENCE ON LEARNING@SCALE, L@S 2024. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.

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