Yay! Can't wait to see it when it's ready.

"You gonna comment that code?"

Quick and Meaningless Data Collection Help me collect some data to use for student examples! The questions on geographic region and gender will only be used for subsetting the data, not for student analysis. No questions are required -…

I NEED HELP!

Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats!

I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again!

Please circulate widely!

My hidden talent is that I can drop a dime of a request in a piano bar that nails the vibe of the room and the register of the performer.

I can nail it. Cold.

This past weekend I finished my read of "Practical Ethnography" by @sladner.bsky.social, which was terrific.

She said "The researcher is the instrument." This is a pithy, direct way to get at the essential nature of position (in quant and qual work) that resonated.

www.practicalethnography.com

110 Class Structure & Positive Relationships - Podcast Episodes - Two Pint PLC We discuss classroom structure's impact on students & student views of positive teacher relationships.

I produce and co-host an education research podcast that releases new episodes on the 12th of each month:

We discuss a meta-analysis of classroom structures that predict engagement & academic success and student-reported themes from positive teacher relationships.

twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

AAAS Video: ABT Framework/Story Circles YouTube video by ABT Agenda

I have asked my methods students to write an ABT for their research like 3 or 4 times now this semester... it always feels rote or overdone when I'm planning, but I can SEE them getting better at summarizing their work.

It's so worth it.

youtu.be/ungl-jozHLA?...

I can't believe they talked to even one faculty member about this.

It is such an honor to read those names. No educator would willingly turn that over to a robot.

I simply cannot believe it.

It's an industry-based coalition focused on establishing a standard of practice for school POEs. I've got a brief explainer video in my pinned post.

bsky.app/profile/mich...

a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie . Alt: Fozzy Bear looking around waiting for a laugh during stand-up

I'm creating a framework for an analytic guide for the Coalition for the Advanced Understanding of School Environments, and I have never been more motivated to figure out how to do a causal design in this framework...

The analytic heading could be "CAUSEation"! #AcademicSky

I cannot square how often organizations that are otherwise evidence-based talk about AI with a conspicuous absence of evidence for AI use.

News story #1 celebrating regulation roll back. News story #2 reporting toxic crisis in Mexico from US pollution.

The algorithm dropping a tough #PairedTexts right in my news feed...

The learning styles hypothesis is false, but there are patterns of student characteristics that are useful The learning styles hypothesis—and particularly the meshing hypothesis—state that learners’ preferences about their preferred modality of learning (i.e., visual, aural, or kinesthetic) predict lear...

The paper in the episode above gives a framing I found super valuable. From Dinsmore, Fryer, & Parkinson in 2022:

doi.org/10.1080/0040...

068 Learning Styles & Learning To Learn - Podcast Episodes - Two Pint PLC We discuss ways to help teachers move past the learning styles myth, and later how to train students in ways to learn.

Our reaction to the Learning Styles myth came up in the discussion.

Hearing "learning styles" from practitioners often relates to valuable practices (even if it IS a myth). We should evolve the myth forward rather than react with hostility.

twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

Multistudio - Student Engagement Promotes Community Investment Seeking student input before, during, and after the design process helps foster deeper community involvement and richer project outcomes.

Meaningful engagement is a huge piece of what I do at Multistudio. We recently wrote a piece about working with artifacts to cultivate more meaningful conversation with students.

www.multi.studio/perspective/...

Is education better because of us? How ed tech can answer the call to produce research that matters - Journal of Computing in Higher Education Despite the enormous investment in educational technology research, there are sincere questions about whether it is having a meaningful effect on issues that really matter. Put simply, is education be...

Their paper "Is education better because of us?" is a terrific read and I recommend it to everyone!

doi.org/10.1007/s125...

101 Ed Tech & Opportunity Makers - Podcast Episodes - Two Pint PLC Jason McDonald talks calls for entangled research and we critique a key finding in TNTP's The Opportunity Makers.

Building partnerships with schools requires "entanglement." From ethnographic tradition, we as researchers must do more than take data - we should be involved in a way that transforms US.

We talked with @jasonkmcdonald.bsky.social about this recently:

twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

Two Pint PLC - Personal & Professional Education Podcast A podcast to challenge K-12 educators by considering up-to-date research through the lens of practicing teachers trying to do what’s right for students.

My keystone habit is to "discuss research." Every month I get together with my good friend and former coworker to read and discuss education research. The podcast covers a wide range of topics and focuses on relevance to classroom practice. New episodes the 12th of every month!

twopintplc.com

CAUSE Coalition

I am a co-founder of the Coalition for the Advanced Understanding of School Environments (CAUSE). We are an industry-based collective focused on establishing a standard of practice in K-12 school POE research.

www.causecoalition.org

I also serve as the board chair for The Educator Academy. Before moving into a full-time research role I trained STEM teachers, and I remain passionate about preparing the next generation of educators. The EA does terrific work and I'm proud to support them.

educator-academy.org/board-of-dir...

KU TRIO McNair Scholars Program

I teach undergraduates each spring as part of the University of Kansas's McNair Program - a TRIO program focused on supporting first-generation undergraduates to begin research careers.

mcnair.ku.edu

Multistudio - Place, People, and Policy: Dr. Michael Ralph's Interdisciplinary Approach to Design Research Explore Dr. Michael Ralph’s journey as Director of the Multistudio Research Center and co-leader of CAUSE, where he connects design, data, and educational equity to drive meaningful impact across scho...

"Why do I work at an architecture firm?"

Here is a profile of my role at Multistudio. Their multidisciplinary perspective on design has been a terrific fit for how I approach doing science.

www.multi.studio/perspective/...

Panel presentation infographic for an event on Wednesday April 8 at 3:45 PDT.

Hello everyone at #AERA26!

This is a thread of resources I plan to reference during the panel tomorrow afternoon. I'll also add other things that may come up in the conversation, so scroll through this list to find any materials I suggest in the session.

Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories Rather than framing disinformation as false facts which can be countered by true facts, we propose a model of disinformation as narrative by tracing three case studies of successful disinformation ...

🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Doing panel prep this afternoon, and one of the question is basically 'how do you do responsive research within the framework of conventional academia?'

I genuinely laughed out loud.

Who is going to #AERA26 this year? #AcademicSky

I have a question about meta-analysis methods for a recording I am doing in about 2 hours...

Do I have any scholarly friends "On Here" who have expertise in conducting meta-analysis?

got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it

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White background. Text reads: Very little money donated to Autism Speaks goes toward helping autistic people and families. Only 1/10 of 1% of Autism Speaks’ budget goes towards the “Family Service” grants that are the organization’s means of funding services. Autism Speaks spent more than 188x as much on fundraising. They spent 16x as much on Facebook/ Instagram ads alone. Although Autism Speaks has not prioritized services with a practical impact for families and individuals in its budget, its rates of executive pay are the highest in the autism world: some salaries exceed $415,000 a year. Autism Speaks talks about us without us. Autism Speaks has only 2 autistic people out of a total of 27 individuals on its Board of Directors. By contrast, 16 out of 27 board members represent major corporations, including current and former CEOs and senior executives of AutoZone, Goldman Sachs, SoundCloud, White Castle, MasterCard, and S.C. Johnson & Johnson.

White background. Text at the top reads: Autism Speaks’ Budget. Source: Autism Speaks 990 Non-Profit Tax Exemption Form, 2024* There’s a pie chart with the following sections: 49.4% “Awareness” & Lobbying, 22% Fundraising, 19.4% Research, 9.1% Misc., and 0.1% Family Services. Text at the bottom reads: *“Awareness & Lobbying” figure derived from reported program service expenses on Part III, 4a & 4c less the total amount awarded in family service grants (“Family Services”) and misclassified research grants as reported in Part III, Line 4A; “Research” figure derived from reported program service expenses in Part III, 4b plus the misclassified research grant amount; “Fundraising” figure derived from reported expenses, line 25(D) in Part IX.

Blue background with white text that reads: Instead, donate to organizations that help autistic people: Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) provides support, community, and public policy advocacy, by and for people on the autism spectrum. autisticadvocacy.org Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network (AWN) seeks to share information which works to build acceptance and understanding of disability, while dispelling stereotypes and misinformation which perpetuate unnecessary fears surrounding an autism diagnosis. awnnetwork.org Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE) works to ensure that people with disabilities are treated as equals and are given the same decisions, choices, rights, responsibilities, and chance to speak up to empower themselves as everyone else. sabeusa.org

Very little money donated to Autism Speaks goes toward helping autistic people and families. This #AutismAcceptanceMonth, considering supporting groups by and for autistic people!
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