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Is it the school, or the students?

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This facilitates comparisons that reveal causal effects of school attendance on learning gains, as in a randomized clinical trial of the sort used in medical research. This leads to a research design that can isolate cause and effect.”

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

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While peer-reviewed journals are important mechanisms to share research, she feels that scholars can also present the results of those studies in other ways to help influence practice in a more timely manner. Joosten also argued that the field should evaluate trends through subgroups of underrepresented students to promote equity.

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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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To mitigate the risks inherent in trying out a potentially ineffective product, we suggest the time and effort spent evaluating the evidence should be proportional to the amount of time students will spend using the product. Reviewing research studies to determine effectiveness can be a complex process.

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Using the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Framework to Examine an Authentic Project-based Research Symposium

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What peer evaluation resonated with you the most? Dream : What do you hope to accomplish based on your research? Design : How effective was your research design (selection of literature, methods, etc.)? In addition, psychology faculty reviewed end of the course evaluation comments regarding the Symposium.

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Lexia Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

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Nevertheless, in the year following its founding, Lexia won a major grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to fund product research, design, and development. It was out on the fringes,” said Lexia President, Nick Gaehde who joined the company as its head in 2005.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

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ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. My prompt: My student is completing a research project. Evaluate the question and give three suggestions for revising the question in a way that identifies a legal issue.

Ethics 128
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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

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ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. My prompt: My student is completing a research project. Evaluate the question and give three suggestions for revising the question in a way that identifies a legal issue.

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