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What I Learned From an Experiment to Apply Generative AI to My Data Course

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As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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

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During such research, Dieffenbach says parents always give fully informed consent, and even that paperwork is approved by an institutional review board, or IRB, which reviews research methods and weighs in on ethical considerations. We’re always running experiments.

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How to Go Back to School, Higher-Ed Leadership Edition

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Oregon State University Research in Action podcast : one to consider adding to your queue, if it is not already there. The student was unhappy with her grade and kept flipping through all the pages she had printed out with her highlights marking the discrepancies between my perceptions and her own.

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

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To have any hope of getting her school into that top five spot by the end of the school year, Beaird has been repurposing research methods from some of the world’s most respected education thinkers to discover which instructional approaches are most effective for students in her school.

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

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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.

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

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When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing.

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

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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.

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