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

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Some school leaders turn to expensive technology and troves of data as an answer to low proficiency problems in public schools. Academic performance during the 2013-2014 school year garnered the institution a Focus school status—meaning it was in the bottom 10 percent of Title I served schools in the state based on achievement gaps.

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

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I am a former high-tech executive with an MBA, turned severe special needs elementary educator, mother of 7 (4 in college, 3 in high school) who is looking at that next step in my career. Oregon State University Research in Action podcast : one to consider adding to your queue, if it is not already there.

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

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This concept is called community-based participatory research (CBPR). The premise of this research method is for researchers to take a step back and approach research with collaboration in mind; in this way, we opt to formulate research findings with Black women educators instead of doing research on Black women educators.

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

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COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. This way of thinking about technology has been core to many pitches made by edtech providers to schools and, I’d argue, it has outsized influence on how most of us think about edtech.

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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.

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University Data Science Programs Turn to Ethics and the Humanities

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But when it comes to data science, which often deals with gathering large data sets and making predictions about human behavior, some schools are taking a different route. The program has courses one would expect of a data science program: programming, statistics and research methods.

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