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

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As the legislative election in France approached this summer, a research team decided to reach out to hundreds of citizens to interview them about their views on key issues. But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher — it was an AI chatbot.

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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? It carries with it the question of, what’s benign? How Harmless?

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It’s Time to Ditch the Idea of Edtech Disruption. But What Comes Next?

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In response to research claims that Logo, a programming language for children, didn’t work for learning, Papert wrote: This [technocentric] tendency shows up in questions like “what is the effect of the computer on cognitive development?” This doesn’t mean this kind of research should stop. or “does LOGO work?”

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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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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. This research tool can be modified so the questions are about specific events or activities within a course or module, and the answers on these themes are scaled.

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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. as a tool in research project supervision. I also discuss how to instruct students to include ChatGPT in their research methodology when using the tool to refine research questions.

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

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Until one day, you find yourself studying as a preservice teacher, enrolled in a mathematics content course that you are required to pass to obtain your teaching degree. Asking questions about what a potential elementary-aged student might find challenging, where a misconception might come up, etc., makes PSTs the expert in the room.

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