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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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In June, Dartmouth College dropped a cheating investigation into medical students following the dubious use of Canvas to track perceived activity during exams. It’s a timely one, too, as recent news has shown just how tired students are of secret monitoring. We’re always running experiments.

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

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An ideal integrative component is having small group activities within these talks whereby class members from different disciplines work with each other on activities set by the presenter, i.e. by someone outside of their respective fields.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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The general public and scientists combine their efforts to carry out large-scale activities so that the labor involved in the projects is distributed. Such projects are especially useful in population studies, wildlife conservation efforts, psychological surveys, and behavioral research.

Science 144
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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

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2021) “We Be Lovin’ Black Children” is a short book packed with resources and activities for teaching the fullness of Black history and the African diaspora. Myers Education Press “We Be Lovin’ Black Children: Learning to be Literate About the African Diaspora,” edited by Gloria Swindler Boutte, Ph.D., King, Ph.D., Johnson Jr., King, Ph.D.

History 162
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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

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One of the things we are working on is, how do we bring more of the rich types of activities and interactions that happen in classrooms to the types of things students are doing on tests,” says Gorin. Such activities may one day find their way to the tests ETS produces.

Exams 112
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The Low-tech Research Strategies That Are Turning Around a Failing Title I School

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Dr. Christy Beaird, principal at Laura Dearing Elementary School in Nevada, however, has actively applied research with minimal data collection to transform her school from one of the lowest performers in the Clark County School District to one of the highest. We hope to be in the top five by the end of this year.”.

Exams 137
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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

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Invite PSTs to complete a reflection activity at the beginning of the course. Gurpreet Sahmbi is an educator at the University of Toronto in mathematics education and research methods in teacher education. SEL Component Examples Self-Awareness Acknowledge different experiences that PSTs have had with mathematics.

Math 124