Edsurge
OCTOBER 27, 2020
EdSurge: In researching this book, you write that you spent two years looking at distraction in classrooms. Can you talk about some of your research methods? Lang: There were two strains of research I conducted for the book. I’ve taught by discussion for many years in my literature and writing classes.
Edsurge
JULY 9, 2021
But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm? Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK?
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Edsurge
JANUARY 19, 2024
While our participants discussed the stresses of systemic and interpersonal discrimination and oppression, these spaces illustrated the potentially healing effects of connecting through affinity groups, especially after the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. This concept is called community-based participatory research (CBPR).
Faculty Focus
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. The asynchronous discussion gives students a chance to practice these skills independently, while learning from each other’s examples.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 30, 2022
Though the inclusion of social and emotional learning (SEL) in mathematics has gained traction via provincial curricula for elementary learners in Ontario (Ministry of Education, 2020) and most recently, grade 9 students (Ministry of Education, 2021), there are limited discussions on the impact of SEL in mathematics for adult learners.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
2018) Purdy’s “Transforming the Elite” shines a light on a lesser-discussed part of America’s history of segregation — private schools. The University of North Carolina Press “Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools” by Michelle Purdy, Ph.D. Du Bois, Ph.D.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Integrative questionnaire design: In delivering a social research methods module, a shared questionnaire document could be an active boundary object. This session could serve as a preliminary discussion before creating a flow chart, or it could come after the chart’s development as a practical application.
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