𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚠

Faculty @IUBloomington @IUJSoM, adjunct @IUSPH. Music education, assessment, grading, measurement, quant methods, policy. Music assessment book:

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Not to mention that having HIPAA and FERPA compliant AI systems makes thousands of students and researchers using them less risky.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

There are good things and bad things about AI in education & research just like everywhere else, but it’s also true that it’s not going away and that AI increasingly is becoming part of the tool set available to research & teaching, as well as a subject for both study & learning

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

My timeline seems to have people surprised that U Chicago is getting Claude, but tons of schools (including U Penn where I teach) have school-wide AI

There are lots of things that need to be figured out about AI & scholarship but safe & equitable access is a necessary foundation

[𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚠 @brianpshaw]

@ZachOsterman First time taking the kids? (We are also here.)

[𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚠 @brianpshaw]

@mattyglesias A chicken in every hot pot

[𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚠 @brianpshaw]

Would be interested to see results from modeling BS and real master's degrees separately. Teacher motivation was also unobserved.

No one would expect teachers who want the cheapest & easiest degree possible, & motivated purely by the salary raise, to be transformed.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Using massive administrative data from North Carolina, researchers looked at the effect of teachers earning Master's degrees on the achievement of their students

With this data, they could take out teacher fixed-effects, plausibly allowing causal conclusions

They found bupkes

[𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚠 @brianpshaw]

Dear @AssemblyCall @CrimsonCast @Soni42 please help me feel better about coaching counterfactuals 😰

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

'Sausage mcmuffins' because sausage is the TYPE of mcmuffin.

In 'attorneys general,' 'attorneys' is the noun being modified.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

A case study of why I think that we overestimate the perfection level of our work prior to AI, and underestimate the degree to which AI may already be good enough at some critical tasks where it is not perfect.

[𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚠 @brianpshaw]

@dylanwiliam We can all only hope that our writing still stands up this nicely 20+ years on!

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

It is increasingly clear that the careless mass introduction of 1:1 devices (on each kid's desk) in the 2010s was, at best, a waste of billions that could have been spent on teachers. At worst: a major cause of declining ed outcomes.

[𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚠 @brianpshaw]

@mattyglesias Let's overlay those reading scores with a plot of the $ shifted away from public schools into charters and virtual "schools" and virtual homeschooling vouchers

[𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚠 @brianpshaw]

A terrific short read from @dylanwiliam.

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

Here's a link to a new post on Substack about combining student scores (based on an example that Paul Black and I used in our MA module on Exploratory Data Analysis in the 1980s). If anyone knows where this came from, I'd love to know. https://t.co/xkehIY5DW8

[𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚠 @brianpshaw]

@dylanwiliam Brilliant in its concision and lucidity. I will use this in my teaching!

[𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚠 @brianpshaw]

This is a foundational question for those in education and educational measurement to consider. Some thought-provoking replies here...

..and some other replies, too!

[AERA @AERA_EdResearch]

.@usedgov has issued a request for public feedback on redesigning @IESResearch and how it can modernize its programs, processes, and priorities. The public comment period is open through October 15. View the request here: https://t.co/rwQVCFgu1c

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I have previously been against any use of detectors due to false positives & the fact they only caught non-sophisticated users.

I think there is still a lot of reason to be worried about how they are used & what it means to “cheat” with AI, but my original reasons are less true.

[Andrew Ho @AndrewDeanHo]

What do I see in high school NAEP results? Missing data.
Why can't we tell if this is pandemic decline or recovery? We haven't measured since 2019.
Why can't we see bright spots? No state data.
We need more high school NAEP to learn from states succeeding with kids this age. @NPR

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

NBC News poll finds huge support for restricting smartphones in school

79% ✅
21% 🚫

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I'll return to my broader point: evidence suggests AI, at its current level of capability, will have a big impact on jobs, education, and our society. We only get to shape those outcomes if we realize that they are going to happen. Giving people an excuse to dismiss AI hurts them