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Researchers Try Using AI Chatbots to Conduct Interviews for Social Science Studies

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The specific prompt, according to a paper published by the researchers , was: “You are a professor at one of the world’s leading research universities, specializing in qualitative research methods with a focus on conducting interviews.

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Despite Challenges, Here’s Why These Black Women Educators Stay in the Classroom

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Department of Education reported that Black educators make up approximately 9 percent of the teacher workforce , of which a majority are Black women. Most notably, it became clear that for Black women educators in this study, being a teacher is more of an identity than a job title. Last year, the U.S.

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It’s Time to Ditch the Idea of Edtech Disruption. But What Comes Next?

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Combined with sobering reports on the persistent lack of strong evidence for edtech , it’s no wonder why the notion of using technology to “fix broken schools” has fallen out of most startup pitch decks and education TED Talks. We Need to Stop Treating Education Like a Sickness and Edtech Like Medicine To illustrate, let me use an analogy.

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

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That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. In a conversation with EdSurge, Peterson says she would like to see researchers build upon the federal guidelines that protect study participants.

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

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Often, at the higher education level, instruction is provided to classes that consist of diverse groups of students from various course cohorts or disciplines. Integrative questionnaire design: In delivering a social research methods module, a shared questionnaire document could be an active boundary object.

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The Evolving Landscape of Diversity and Inclusion Management in Higher Education

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The evolving landscape of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in higher education is reshaping the role of Chief Diversity Officers (CDOs) (El-Amin, 2022b). The role of Chief Diversity Officers (CDOs) in higher education has undergone significant transformation over recent years (El-Amin, 2022b).

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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From pondering over simple natural processes such as the transitions between day and night to complex genomic studies , science has come a long way. Apart from careful studies conducted in complex laboratories, science also runs on data collection, observations, and statistical analysis.

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