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

ED Surge

The chatbot interviewer is part of an experiment by two professors at the London School of Economics, who argue that AI could change the game when it comes to measuring public opinion in a variety of fields. “It It could really accelerate the pace of research,” says Xavier Jaravel, one of the professors leading the experiment.

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A Sign Of The Times: Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

TeachThought

From social sciences to natural sciences, statistics permeates every facet of inquiry, offering invaluable contributions to fields as diverse as economics, public health, environmental science, and beyond. At the heart of statistics’ resurgence lies the proliferation of data in the digital era.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

Subjects like this provide “a more responsible and informed approach that is about creating justice and about righting the wrongs of the past,” she says. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

We engaged in a collaborative project based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) designed to explore how AI tools might support undergraduate learning in anthropology. Students wondered: Why do some apps ask for so much more information than others? As it turns out, a lot!)

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OPINION: Colleges have an ethical responsibility to prepare all students for the world of work

The Hechinger Report

The economic devastation wrought by Covid-19 and its disproportionate impact on students served by community colleges make this an ethical imperative. This is even more the case under Covid-19 with community colleges under pressure to help hourly wage workers who have suffered the most in the economic downturn gain new skills.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. The human past has been shaped by harnessing and consuming materials and energy.

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Despite popularity with parents and teachers, review of research finds small benefits to small classes

The Hechinger Report

The benefits of small classes have become something of an informal yardstick. Some studies were missing key pieces of information such as failing to specify whether the test results were in math or reading. (In graduate school, I was taught that the benefits of small classes kick in once the class size falls below 16 students.)

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