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What I Learned From an Experiment to Apply Generative AI to My Data Course

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As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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The Low-tech Research Strategies That Are Turning Around a Failing Title I School

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Academic performance during the 2013-2014 school year garnered the institution a Focus school status—meaning it was in the bottom 10 percent of Title I served schools in the state based on achievement gaps. Hattie’s review, or meta-analysis, included a synthesis of findings from 15 years of research, involving millions of participants.

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Learning by Working Together: Developing and Checking for Group Integration Across Diverse Disciplinary Cohorts

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Integrative questionnaire design: In delivering a social research methods module, a shared questionnaire document could be an active boundary object.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Critical Thinking and Scientific Literacy Exposure to the scientific community and its methods enhances students’ and amateur volunteer scientists’ approaches toward specific problems. Challenges in Citizen Science Like all undertakings, citizen science, too, is not without its shortcomings and challenges.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

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Many PSTs have long associated “smartness” with mathematical achievement, and for those who have had struggles in the mathematics class, they decidedly feel not smart as mathematics learners. Gurpreet Sahmbi is an educator at the University of Toronto in mathematics education and research methods in teacher education.

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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

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They say testing allows for policymakers to view and compare performance data that can be instrumental in identifying gaps in achievement or underserved student populations. Her office has researched methods such as hands-on tasks, classroom-based activities and simulations to measure science proficiency.

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The Evolving Landscape of Diversity and Inclusion Management in Higher Education

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This approach fosters greater accountability among leaders, faculty, and staff and promotes a culture of shared responsibility for achieving DEIB goals. In Social justice research methods for doctoral research (pp. Uprooting Bias in the Academy: Lessons from the Field , 81-95. El-Amin, A. IGI Global. El-Amin, A.

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