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Can AI be racist? Color‐evasiveness in the application of machine learning to science assessments

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ID21392631
AuthorsTina Cheuk (0000-0001-7841-2492, School of Education, College of Science and Mathematics California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo California USA, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume105
Issue5
Pages825-836
Publication date2021-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0036-8326 • E-ISSN: 1098-237X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/sce.21671
OpenAlexW3191550339
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited58

Assessment developers are increasingly using the developing technology of machine learning in transforming how to assess students in their science learning. I argue that these algorithmic models further embed the structures of inequality that are pervasive in the development of science assessments in how they legitimize certain language practices that protect the hierarchical standing of status quo interests. My argument is situated within the broader emerging ethical challenges around this new technology. I apply a raciolinguistic equity analysis framework in critiquing the “new black box” that reinforces structural forms of discrimination against the linguistic repertoires of racially marginalized student populations. The article ends with me sharing a set of tactical shifts that can be deployed to form a more equitable and socially‐just field of machine learning enhanced science assessments

Argument (complex analysis) · Computational sociology · Epistemology · Equity (law) · Field (mathematics) · Inequality · Pedagogy · Political science · Science education · Set (abstract data type) · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Status quo · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies · Law · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Student Assessment and Feedback

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Citations per year5,25
Citation span2022 - 2026 (5)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 21
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