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+It is a pre-trained German science education BERT for written German science assessments.
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+## Usage
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+With Transformers >= 2.3 our German BERT models can be loaded like:
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+```python
+from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
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+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ai4stem-uga/G-SciEdBERT")
+model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("ai4stem-uga/G-SciEdBERT")
+```
+
+# Acknowledgments
+This study secondary analyzed data from projects supported by the National Science Foundation (grant numbers 2101104, PI Zhai) and the Institute of Education Sciences (grant number R305A160219, PI Liu). The authors acknowledge the funding agencies and the project teams for making the data available for analysis. The findings, conclusions, or opinions herein represent the views of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of personnel affiliated with the funding agencies.