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

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This complex web of interactions makes it hard to isolate and prove the direct impact of a technology on learning as one does in efficacy studies. This doesn’t mean this kind of research should stop. He saw learning environments “as a web of mutually supporting, interacting processes.”

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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. David Porcaro, vice-president of learning and innovation at General Assembly, writes that he was involved with the lightning rod Pearson study that touched off the debate.

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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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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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