Reimagining Educational Research: A Conversation

Reimagining Human Research Protections for 21st Century Science

BACKGROUND Evolving research practices and new forms of research enabled by technological advances require a redesigned research oversight system that respects and protects human research participants. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to generate creative ideas for redesigning our current human research oversight system. METHODS A total of 11 researchers and institutional review board (IRB) prof...

Antony: A Reimagining

We present a re-realization of David Wessel’s Antony (1977). Antony was originally composed using a novel set of additive synthesis techniques developed for the 4A and the PDP 11/40. Those techniques continued to play a role throughout Wessel’s life as an improviser, and inspired many of his students and colleagues. Our re-realization of Antony involves using those same techniques to reinterpre...

Conversation analysis as research methodology

Reimagining a “national” Standards Strategy

Introduction: In 2000, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) undertook the task of drafting a “National Standards Strategy “ for the United States. The goals included identifying the challenges then facing America as it participated domestically and abroad in standard setting, devising responsive actions to be taken to meet those challenges, and designating the stakeholders best suit...

Using transactivity in conversation for summarization of educational dialogue

We present our ongoing work towards using the concept of transactivity [1] for automatically assessing learning of students working together in a collaborative setting. Transactive segments of student dialogue are proposed as useful components of conversation summaries generated for instructors. Experimental evaluation of this hypothesis shows promising results. Further, initial results are pre...