Participation and Research Methods

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

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Despite the risk of negative consequences for showing up unapologetically and authentically, several research participants expressed that being a teacher is their calling, their purpose and their joy. In fact, throughout this series, you’ll hear from participants who’ll tell their own stories.

Education

Education Participation Research Methods Study

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

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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. So what did the research involving French voters reveal?

Study

Study Science Participation Research Methods

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

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JULY 9, 2021

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? Peterson wondered at the concern over the test expressed in media coverage.

Ethics

Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning

How to Become a Citizen Scientist

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Citizen science allows the common public to participate in important scientific studies, partnering with scientists and helping them with work crucial to the enhancement of human knowledge. It allows participants right from young children to retirees to participate in important scientific work.

Science

Science Participation Laboratory Interdisciplinary

Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

2019) The most common tropes of the history of the institution of enslavement — what we learn in school (if not banned) and in movies — is that white women’s participation was limited to being innocent bystanders. Jones-Rogers, Ph.D. Du Bois, Ph.D. 1920) “Darkwater” is within my top three favorite Du Bois classics.

History

History Teaching Learning Writing

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

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. A live or synchronous approach might involve a collaborative round table role-playing session with multiple participants addressing the same issue.

Research Methods

Research Methods Learning Study Social Studies

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

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I began to monitor participation patterns and made adjustments to the courses to include more and varied opportunities for engagement. My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. However, a connection can also take another shape.

Attention

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary

ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Nevertheless, educators are already employing ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools for skills enhancement in teaching and research (Crompton and Burke, 2023). In their research projects, my students co-create at three levels: student-client, student-supervisor, and student/supervisor-AI assistant.

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Ethics Intelligence Feedback Languages

Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I began to monitor participation patterns and made adjustments to the courses to include more and varied opportunities for engagement. My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. However, a connection can also take another shape.

Attention

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary

iPads Did Not Revolutionize Campus Teaching (But a Few Colleges Give Every Student One)

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MARCH 28, 2017

As a result, students can spend more time participating in classroom activities and discussion.” While Rodriguez is a big fan of the iPad and says she’d purchase the device herself even if the university didn’t provide one, she thinks students still prefers traditional research methods. “I

Mobile Devices

Mobile Devices Textbooks Teaching Lecturing

PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. For classroom use, participants use a camera to respond to a prompt.

Technology

Technology Art Learning Students

Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation

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. We talked about interpreting statistics like percent change, visual representations of data, survey design, and sampling.

Teaching

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism

ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Nevertheless, educators are already employing ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools for skills enhancement in teaching and research (Crompton and Burke, 2023). In their research projects, my students co-create at three levels: student-client, student-supervisor, and student/supervisor-AI assistant.

Ethics

Ethics Intelligence Feedback Languages

Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation

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. We talked about interpreting statistics like percent change, visual representations of data, survey design, and sampling.

Teaching

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism

PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. For classroom use, participants use a camera to respond to a prompt.

Technology

Technology Art Learning Students

Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In an effort to incentivize these discussions, I offered students participation points for showing up and engaging. At that point, only one or two students did not participate. Currently, I am using cogen in a graduate level research methods course.

Teaching

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Problem-Based Learning

Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I was in the first year of the top doctorate program in my field, and we were 20 educators-in-training being taught best practices of various communication research methods by supposed leading experts. Wait, what? populations, including “tips” on how to work with diverse communities.

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