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

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In a conversation with EdSurge, Peterson says she would like to see researchers build upon the federal guidelines that protect study participants. 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

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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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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.

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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. Joanna Gorin To study these types of innovative approaches to testing, ETS has partnered with groups such as Game Lab to design activities that can both measure and help develop competencies and skills.

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

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Students will be able to capture video and write about their experiences when they’re studying abroad or working on research projects.” Now everyone will have access to the same kind of learning resources and training to help them prepare for coursework and take their studies seriously.”