eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2024

Bias and fairness: Bias in AI systems and troubles ensuring fair treatment 3. AI in education carries with it ethical and philosophical implications, too, including how to handle transparency and accountability, along with how to address the role of human teachers and balancing technology with human values.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2024

No one denies it can make student testing more efficient, faster, possibly leading to better educational outcomes for all learners. While experts acknowledge risks such as bias and access disparities, they foresee AI-driven assessments reshaping education by tailoring tests to individual needs and promoting deeper learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

For instance, consider a scenario where a district uses standardized test scores to evaluate teacher performance. If the data is skewed by socioeconomic factors or if the test itself is biased against certain groups, it could lead to unfair evaluations.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

They also were required to pass a test on national and state civil rights laws and professional ethics, as well as a rigorous state test required for the grade-level and subject-matter area. “I had to study for it,” Durfey said of the science test. “It was like going back to school again.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Bier and others involved in the project say that they are testing the approach in a variety of educational settings, including public and private K-12 schools, community colleges and four-year colleges. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) They're not fair [ because of false positives ].

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Over the last decade or so , we’ve settled into a choreographed dance around large-scale, state-mandated standardized test scores. Next, people who have nothing to do with the design, administration, taking, or scoring of the tests will then use them to critique states, districts, schools, and/or individual teachers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

After all, academic research often requires deeper knowledge of a field than is typical in high school, and it involves carefully following ethical guidelines to protect research subjects from potential harm that students may not be aware of without expert guidance.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This raises concerns about fairness and equity, as students from underrepresented groups might face further disadvantages. Lastly, the rapid evolution of technology may outpace regulatory frameworks and ethical guidelines, leading to potential misuse or unintended consequences. What are the pros and cons of AI in education?

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

I don’t think that is ethical,” Herrera, now the Senior Director of Strategy and Operations at ProjectEd, told the audience at a recent panel session at the SXSW EDU conference in Austin. In general, top-down mandates to test products are taxing on teachers’ time and provide few rewards, making them somewhat burdenous.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2019

In some cases, the company also helped the applicants cheat on ACT or SAT tests, or took online classes for them to boost their applications. She adds that the Independent Educational Consultants Association has clear ethical guidelines that she and her colleagues follow. Some parents paid millions of dollars for the services.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The answer—like so much else related to digital copyright and fair use—is kind of a gray area. Try Ethics and Philosophy. A panel of global scholars point to an unlikely trio of skills: philosophy, ethics and morality. “If What Does Growth Look Like for a Student Who Isn’t Having Success on Standardized Tests?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

These include over-reliance, plagiarism, bias, limited creativity, ethical considerations, accessibility issues, oversimplification, distraction, and dehumanization of the learning experience. This challenge tests the user’s ability to understand and transcribe spoken language, a task that is difficult for bots.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And it's for this reason that I was tracing what was happening with key issues of representation, ideas of fairness around communities and found what I felt were harmful ways that these technologies influence ideas about people. You say, "Okay, how do we bring ethical concerns at the conception of the technology?" And students?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

The first domain is associated with taking a team approach to maintain shared values, engage in ethical conduct, and engage in respect for each other. In the test stage, the educator will practice and test the education plan for efficacy. These concepts apply to both the curriculum or content and the environment.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

The first domain is associated with taking a team approach to maintain shared values, engage in ethical conduct, and engage in respect for each other. In the test stage, the educator will practice and test the education plan for efficacy. These concepts apply to both the curriculum or content and the environment.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

The first domain is associated with taking a team approach to maintain shared values, engage in ethical conduct, and engage in respect for each other. Test – The educator will practice and test the education plan for efficacy. These concepts apply to both the curriculum or content and the environment.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

These include over-reliance, plagiarism, bias, limited creativity, ethical considerations, accessibility issues, oversimplification, distraction, and dehumanization of the learning experience. This challenge tests the user’s ability to understand and transcribe spoken language, a task that is difficult for bots.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

The first domain is associated with taking a team approach to maintain shared values, engage in ethical conduct, and engage in respect for each other. Test – The educator will practice and test the education plan for efficacy. These concepts apply to both the curriculum or content and the environment.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

EdSurge’s jobs fairs offer unparalleled access to a unique pool of candidates who have both the educational experience and technology skills your organization needs. Of course, there’s also a strong ethical argument to be made for diversity, equity and inclusion. Looking for a candidate who's got it all? Learn more here.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 7, 2017

There seems to be fairly wide agreement that schools that aren’t achieving minimum levels of proficiency on standardized tests of lower-level – or, for PARCC & SBAC fans, arguably mid-level – knowledge are ‘failing’ or should be ’turned around.’ Download this image ].

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

We have the third-highest average ACT score of states that test at least half of their graduates. Do we have any other options besides trying to cover? Iowa has the top high school graduation rate in the country. One option we all have in our democracy, of course, is voting and participating in the political process.

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EAB

JULY 18, 2023

We recently discussed some ethical considerations and limitations of ChatGPT on our Office Hours podcast ( listen here ). And without testing it, we are missing applications of ChatGPT that can help us be more efficient. Getting your meeting agendas, team emails, and announcements just right often takes a fair amount of editing.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

All four dimensions matter: Harvard’s Chris Dede summarizes the situation well: “The current curriculum and high-stakes tests often prioritize fostering skills at which AI excels, such as reckoning skills involving calculative prediction and formulaic decision-making. Competencies: Skills: Both challenged and augmented by AI.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. Barry says positive words such as ‘helpful’ and ‘good listening’ and ‘I am acting with ethics’ when he tells me I act with quality,” she says. “If

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2023

Some of the courses, including “Bridge Test,” an English course on how to structure creative writing, have proven immensely popular. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) Drummond explained all this in response to an inquiry from EdSurge, wondering whether the metaverse was dead and decomposing.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Senator Tom Harkin has talked with me for years about the damage that testing is doing to children. When test scores come out, guess who does well and guess who gets blamed? Could we take the billions of dollars that are going to testing companies and put it into rich, developmental pre-K? Parents aren’t frightened of the test.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Students are also still redeveloping the work ethic needed to do well in school, Perez says. The data shows that children who started the pre-program at age 3 went on to score better on eighth grade standardized tests than past cohorts by about 10 points. This is not a simple or cheap solution, he says.

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