John Hattie has produced fake references in four different publications where he was either sole, lead, or one of two authors. That's not remotely normal.
But the University of Melbourne is refusing to investigate any of the four publications. A scandal.
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Reddit screenshot "He must have forgotten to write a learning invention on the board"
John Hattie reportedly being investigated by University of Melbourne for academic misconduct.
Every teacher right now 🤣🤣🤣
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The hallucinated reference does contain the title of a real journal article but the author, journal, volume, pages all completely fake.
BERA today published another article (the 19th) with a hallucinated reference. The journal referenced? COVID-19 Vaccine. The Overview, 2, 1–30.
Of course, it will continue to claim it has the highest editorial standards...
BERA has a huge role to play to get schools thriving.
But in the past few years it has published 48 undeniably AI-authored articles (i.e. they've manifest flaws, inc. fake references, that could only be AI).
To become relevant again, it must retract them all ASAP.
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BERA has a huge role to play to get schools thriving.
But in the past few years it has published 48 undeniably AI-authored articles (i.e. they've manifest flaws, inc. fake references, that could only be AI).
To become relevant again, it must retract them all ASAP.
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John Hattie has produced fake references in four different publications where he was either sole, lead, or one of two authors. That's not remotely normal.
But the University of Melbourne is refusing to investigate any of the four publications. A scandal.
stephenvainker.substack.com/p/john-hatti...
Given the 'hey fellow educators' tone of the article (written by AI), it should have been acknowledged that Cathie Paine is a DfE advisor.
Although she writes as 'we' she is as much 'them'...
Oh no I'm all for blogging - I blog. I'm taking about a clique of bloggers who have become very influential...
I can't be the only one who is done with pseudish insider bloggers in education?
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Whatever it's doing, BERA is not doing peer review.
Summarising the key findings of the field, this review paper published last week put 'showed', 'lack', 'chatbot', and 'high'. This was much better than the 'perceptions & attitudes' section (mostly prepositions).
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4 lots of not X but Y, and weirdly slick, empty phrasing. I'm 95% sure AI wrote this.
Also, who's 'romanticising' the new framework? No human would possibly caution against that, it's absurd.
If you're defending the indefensible, you might as well get AI to write it for you. The message of this is that the problem is not the Ofsted framework, but our 'habits'.
4 lots of 'not x but y' and the bizarre caution to not 'romanticise' the inspection framework. Not even Gribbell would do that!
Whatever it's doing, BERA is not doing peer review.
Summarising the key findings of the field, this review paper published last week put 'showed', 'lack', 'chatbot', and 'high'. This was much better than the 'perceptions & attitudes' section (mostly prepositions).
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I'm assuming (I don't know) this might have something to do with the Times Higher Ed story on AI writing in the journals...
BERA seems to be having something of a leadership crisis. On 31st March Marlon Moncrieffe announced that from that day he would no longer be president. He was meant to stay until end of year.
But BERA haven't announced anything and he's still listed as president on the website?!
I'm delighted that Times Higher Ed have covered the BERA story.
Less delighted that in their response BERA demonstrates it doesn't understand the issue (at all) and doesn't take it seriously.
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A number of journalists have contacted me following the recent Retraction Watch article into John Hattie's plagiarism & hallucinated references, but none have yet run a story.
Why - I suspect because of his empty legal threats, bolstered by a corrupt university.
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Does the identity construction of 1970s German accountants explain video-based instruction?
A new LLM-written BERA article would have you believe it does.
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A profession that fell for the snake oil of Vi$ible £earning will likely fall for that of AI.
How a BERA call for papers is made: get AI to produce a 'gap' in the field. Here, the claim, without support, is that AI literacy research lacks:
a) student-centred research ❎
b) post-GenAI studies❎
Neither is close to true. Why are academics happy to be led by AI slop?
As of a couple of weeks ago, it's been 10 years since I published my book The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race.
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Five calls for papers in a BERA journal strongly appear to be AI written. One rests on absurd, unsubstantiated claims.
In education academia an LLM leadership class is emerging and no one appears willing to challenge it.
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Even the leading figures at the University of Manchester's Institute of Education appear to be publishing AI slop in the British Educational Research Journal.
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Even the leading figures at the University of Manchester's Institute of Education appear to be publishing AI slop in the British Educational Research Journal.
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Forgot to include this astute psychological commentary...
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT
The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
Posing as the AI expert when you have four separate publications with hallucinated references is quite something.
You have to admire it, in a way...
It's the 11 specific occasions where he copied from a work and separately copied the citations used in that work. This is unavoidably deliberate plagiarism.
Through various excuses and chicanery, the uni has avoided investigating all the rest of the misconduct (plagiarism, fake references etc).
Why are teachers in Australia so gleeful at the news that John Hattie is being formally investigated by the University of Melbourne?
Because they are tired of living under the rule of administrators who have bought a 'scientific' fantasy.
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