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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. And the reason is that they feel like the AI is a non-judgmental entity.

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

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A group that is often studied but left out of conversations, we wanted to intentionally facilitate spaces for Black women across and outside the gender spectrum and learn more about their experiences in this climate, as much recent research covers pre-pandemic educator experiences.

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

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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.

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

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From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My wife and I chose Aniefuna because in studying Black history, we learned that our land was never lost. I learned how the absence of so many Igbo and Yoruba people felt for some growing up in West Africa under European reign. My desire to know exploded.

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

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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. Wenger, Etienne.

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

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I was recently reminded of some older psychological principles and current neuroscience studies that assisted me in better understanding the realities of how tough it may be for students to pay attention and focus. Instead, it is vital that I investigate concrete strategies for greatly increasing students’ involvement in learning.

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