publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

2025

  1. Rubric Generation in Colleague AI: Transforming Assessment in Education
    Zewei Victor Tian, Lief Esbenshade, Alex Liu, and 4 more authors
    Social Innovations Journal, 2025
  2. Adapting to Educate: Conversational AI’s Role in Mathematics Education Across Different Educational Contexts
    Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade, Min Sun, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.02999, 2025
  3. Connecting Feedback to Choice: Understanding Educator Preferences in GenAI vs. Human-Created Lesson Plans in K-12 Education–A Comparative Analysis
    Shawon Sarkar, Min Sun, Alex Liu, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.05449, 2025
  4. Collaborative and Adaptive Learning: Designing AI Educational Systems with and for Educators
    Shawon Sarkar, Alex Liu, R Benjamin Shapiro, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2025, pp. 3150-3152, 2025
  5. Towards More Personalized Recommendations by Modeling Users? Temporal Behaviors with Task-Based Graph Neural Network (TGNN)
    Maryam Amirizaniani, Shawon Sarkar, and Chirag Shah
    ACM Transactions on the Web, 2025
  6. Instructional improvement: leveraging computer-assisted textual analysis to generate insights from educational artifacts
    Zewei Victor Tian, Min Sun, Alex Liu, and 2 more authors
    In Research Handbook on Classroom Observation, 2025
  7. Emerging Patterns of GenAI Use in K-12 Science and Mathematics Education
    Lief Esbenshade, Shawon Sarkar, Drew Nucci, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.10747, 2025
  8. Implementation Considerations for Automated AI Grading of Student Work
    Zewei Tian, Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Full Papers, 2025
  9. Decoding Instructional Dialogue: Human-AI Collaborative Analysis of Teacher Use of AI Tool at Scale
    Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade, Shawon Sarkar, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.17985, 2025
  10. From Practice to Nudge: A Hybrid Intelligence Framework for Instructional Decision Support
    Alex Liu, Shawon Sarkar, Lief Esbenshade, and 4 more authors
    2025
  11. AI as a Teaching Partner: Early Lessons from Classroom Codesign with Secondary Teachers
    Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade, Shawon Sarkar, and 6 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.12045, 2025

2024

  1. Providing Teachers with Quality, Relevant, and Useful Mathematical Lesson Materials Using a Domain-Specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation System
    Min Sun, Shawon Sarkar, Alex Liu, and 1 more author
    Navigating the Future of Education Research: Impact Evaluation in a Transforming Landscape, 2024
  2. Identification of tasks at risk in a collaborative project
    Mark James Encarnación, Nalin Singal, Michael Gamon, and 2 more authors
    Jun 2024
    US Patent 12,002,012
  3. Enhancing instructional quality: Leveraging computer-assisted textual analysis to generate in-depth insights from educational artifacts
    Zewei Tian, Min Sun, Alex Liu, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03920, 2024

2023

  1. Representing tasks with a graph-based method for supporting users in complex search tasks
    Shawon Sarkar, Maryam Amirizaniani, and Chirag Shah
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2023
  2. An Integrated Model of Tasks and Uncertainties for Designing Task-aware Search Assistants
    Shawon Sarkar
    2023
  3. A synthetic search session generator for task-aware information seeking and retrieval
    Shawon Sarkar and Chirag Shah
    In Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2023
  4. Taking search to task
    Chirag Shah, Ryen White, Paul Thomas, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2023

2022

  1. Cultivating a Space for Intergenerational Directed Research Groups for Indigenous Students and Allies through Indigenous Knowledge Families
    Clarita Lefthand-Begay, Nicole S Kuhn, Turam Purty, and 8 more authors
    Wicazo Sa Review, 2022

2021

  1. An integrated model of task, information needs, sources and uncertainty to design task-aware search systems
    Shawon Sarkar and Chirag Shah
    In Proceedings of the 2021 acm sigir international conference on theory of information retrieval, 2021
  2. A Context-independent Representation of Task
    Shawon Sarkar
    In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 2021

2020

  1. Implicit information need as explicit problems, help, and behavioral signals
    Shawon Sarkar, Matthew Mitsui, Jiqun Liu, and 1 more author
    Information Processing & Management, 2020
  2. Decolonizing risk communication: Indigenous responses to COVID-19 using social media
    Nicole Kuhn, Shawon Sarkar, Lauren Alaine White, and 3 more authors
    Journal of Indigenous Social Development, 2020
  3. Identifying and predicting the states of complex search tasks
    Jiqun Liu, Shawon Sarkar, and Chirag Shah
    In Proceedings of the 2020 conference on human information interaction and retrieval, 2020

2018

  1. Juggling with information sources, task type, and information quality
    Yiwei Wang, Shawon Sarkar, and Chirag Shah
    In Proceedings of the 2018 conference on human information interaction & retrieval, 2018

2017

  1. Investigating information seekers’ selection of interpersonal and impersonal sources
    Yiwei Wang, Shawon Sarkar, and Chirag Shah
    In Proceedings of the 2017 conference on conference human information interaction and retrieval, 2017
  2. Investigating relations of information seeking outcomes to the selection and use of information sources
    Shawon Sarka, Yiwei Wang, and Chirag Shah
    Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2017