domain: responsible use 

fairness and ethics in computational assessment

By Marissa Elena Thompson

How can AI inform academic evaluation?

This project leverages a corpus of over 800,000 college applications to determine how education data science might inform norms and practices of fairness and ethics in educational evaluation.

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