Glenn M. Davis
Stanford University
6 Papers
28 Citations
Glenn M. Davis is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social class & Foreign language. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
BookBuddy: Turning Digital Materials Into Interactive Foreign Language Lessons Through a Voice Chatbot
Sherry Ruan,Angelica Willis,Qianyao Xu,Glenn M. Davis,Liwei Jiang,Emma Brunskill,James A. Landay +6 more
- 24 Jun 2019
TL;DR: BookBuddy, a scalable virtual reading companion that can turn any reading material into an interactive conversation-based English lesson, is developed and piloted with five 6-year-old native Chinese-speaking children currently learning English.
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Supporting Materials for "Towards Equal Opportunities in MOOCs: Affirmation Reduces Gender & Social-class Achievement Gaps in China"
René F. Kizilcec,Glenn M. Davis,Geoffrey L. Cohen +2 more
- 25 Oct 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the social psychological barrier to achievement that exists alongside important structural barriers (e.g., Internet access, insufficient prior knowledge) and find that learners who experience social identity threat are at risk of underperforming.
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Identifying Preparatory Courses that Predict Student Success in Quantitative Subjects
Glenn M. Davis,Abdallah A. AbuHashem,David Lang,Mitchell L. Stevens +3 more
- 12 Aug 2020
TL;DR: Findings indicate that prior completion of specific courses is positively associated with success in subsequent target courses, and suggest that academic planning could be enhanced through scaled observation of the revealed benefits of course sequences.
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Key Phrase Extraction for Generating Educational Question-Answer Pairs
Angelica Willis,Glenn M. Davis,Sherry Ruan,Lakshmi Manoharan,James A. Landay,Emma Brunskill +5 more
- 24 Jun 2019
TL;DR: An end-to-end neural question generation system that generates question and answer pairs given a context paragraph only by first generating answer candidates (key phrases) from the paragraph context, and then generating questions using the key phrases.
EnglishBot: An AI-Powered Conversational System for Second Language Learning
Sherry Ruan,Liwei Jiang,Qianyao Xu,Zhiyuan Liu,Glenn M. Davis,Emma Brunskill,James A. Landay +6 more
- 14 Apr 2021
TL;DR: The authors developed EnglishBot, a language learning chatbot that converses with students interactively on college-related topics and provides adaptive feedback to help foreign learners learn to speak a foreign language by listening to and repeating pre-recorded materials.