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Kaycie Barron

PhD Student

§ Bio

Kaycie Barron is a first-year doctoral student in the Learning Sciences program within the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work centers on advancing equitable outcomes for bi/multilingual learners and developing human-centered applications of artificial intelligence in K–12 education. Drawing on translanguaging and systemic functional linguistics frameworks, her research examines linguistic bias in large language models and explores ways to make AI tools more inclusive and linguistically responsive. She also partners with educators across Wisconsin to pilot classroom AI tools that reflect authentic teaching values and practices.

§ Publications

2025

2 publications

  1. Teacher Feedback on Linguistic Variations as a Source for Evaluating Language Models

    Kaycie Barron, N. Tseng, Shamya Karumbaiah, Cynthia Baeza

    International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS)

  2. A Multiple Case Study of Translanguaging and Systemic Functional Linguistics in K-12 Science Education

    Kaycie Barron, Shamya Karumbaiah, Cynthia Baeza, Mariana Castro, Diego Roman

    European Science and Education Research Association (ESERA)

TRAIL Lab

The Responsible AI for Learning Lab — asking whether AI belongs in classrooms, not just how.

University of Wisconsin–Madison · Educational Psychology

Contact

1025 W Johnson St

Madison, WI 53706

shamya.karumbaiah@wisc.edu

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