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University Data Science Programs Turn to Ethics and the Humanities

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began receiving requests from local colleges and universities asking for tips about crafting their data-science curriculum. But he says the conversations often fell off once he suggested adding subjects like history of science, philosophy or communication. One question is whether that will bring change to data-science curricula.

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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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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Consider: Charles Darwin: Darwin often relied on the observations of amateur naturalists and enthusiasts during his research Mary Anning: a fossil collector in the early 19th century William Herschel: an astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus E. This is where citizen science comes in.

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

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Those questions were posed in the thread by Collin Lynch, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. “A/B If researchers are testing the benefits of a literacy program, children in the control group might receive math, computer science or mindfulness classes?something

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

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If you really want to measure the practice of doing science, you have to have your test make them do science. In spite of the difficulties and limitations in changing standardized testing, Gorin notes that science exams may be the first to see change. That is what we are working towards,” Gorin explains.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

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PhotoVoice is a visual method used to understand the world through the eyes of those experiencing it. 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. Clover, D.

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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. Social Studies of Science , 19(3) (1989): 387-420. Star, Susan Leigh and Griesemer, James. Wenger, Etienne. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity.