- Mar 2025
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Additionally, researchers could consider using Advancement Placement (AP) scores. The AP program provides high school students with the chance to engage in college-level curricula
I find it odd that the authors suggest using AP scores as a metric for college acceptance given that historically students of color are extremely underrepresented in these course because of systemic racism.
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Additionally, the research on achievement gaps over the years has not substantially improved the experiences of marginalized and minoritized students in STEM
This statement makes me think of the definition of insanity! We continue to study inequities in education the exact same way we did 30 years ago and are expecting to find the missing piece that will improve outcomes in STEM.
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positions marginalized and minoritized students as solely responsible for their lack of representation in STEM fields
So many studies place the blame on the individual and not the system they are being educated in.
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These quotations describe how calculations made by computers, assumed by definition to be objective and free from human bias, not only reflected existing racist stereotypes but then acted upon those stereotypes to create yet further racial injustice
Again, I continue to think about the Weapons of Math Destruction video talking about algorithms. If the persons designing the algorithm has a bias, the algorithm will be inherently biased.
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Through a design process that includes, for example, decisions about which issues should (and should not) be researched, what kinds of question should be asked, how information is to be analysed, and which findings should be shared publicly.
This connects with the article we read last week about the database of research that has not been performed in the Data Feminism article. The questions that we choose to ask are socially constructed and the analysis and conclusions that we make can be extremely inequitable.
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Where ‘race’ is associated with an unequal outcome it is likely to indicate the operation of racism but mainstream interpretations may erroneously impute ‘race’ as a cause in its own right
This is well said. Too often we associate a category with the cause.
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by lending support to deficit theories
Deficit theory is still one of the most impactful ideologies that is still being taught in some of our teacher prep programs. I remember being taught these deficit theories 15 years ago and it completely changed the way I interacted with families of color. I was so convinced because what I was learning was backed up by statistics.
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Statistics are widely viewed as an authoritative, ‘factual’ source of information.
To be completely honest, I was absolutely one of these people before I started this program. If I was reading the news and the article stated a fact that was supported by data I took it as truth. Sadly, I have come to realize that I need to be much more critical of the information that I consume.
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that all data and analysis methods
Going back to many of the articles that we have read. If the researcher is biased the data and interpretation will be biased as well.
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- Feb 2025
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Parenting Quality.
I wonder how many parents were completely honest answering these questions.
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Relatively few studies of advanced STEM achievement have been conducted, particu-larly those using elementary school samples and longitudinal designs
I find it odd that there are so few studies at the elementary level for many different aspects of education...not just achievement.
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In physics,however, instruction increased society’s educational debts fromboth racism and sexism
I wonder why different STEM majors can mitigate educational debts while others can increase the debts.
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They depend onsample sizes and can lead researchers to dismiss meaningfulinequities due to lack of representation in minoritizedgroups.28Instead, we used the standard errors of the estimatedscores to inform our confidence in the results.
A very simple solution to a problem that may not have been addressed if the researchers had not been so thoughtful while designing this study.
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men had higher self-efficacy for chemistryconcepts and chemistry tasks than women. Sunny et al.32alsoshowed that men had lower test anxiety levels than women inchemistry, but men and women performed the same on anunspecified chemistry achievement test.
I wonder if this would be true for most majors in college, given that we are a highly patriarchal society.
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this sympathy also turns into a set of excuses for why they cannot expect much academically from underserved students
I also found that teachers use this as an excuse for their own poor performance.
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It comes to us as if the students are not doing their part
It still amazes me that the problem must be with the student and could never lie in one of the other hundred factors that contribute to performance.
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educational problems as an "achievement gap" forces us to look to the year-to-year progress on various standardized test measure
I agree that much of our "diagnosis" is short sighted and relies heavily on tests that are biased to begin with.
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A thoughtful program can prepare students to be consumers of research, but also be able to access and analyze data to improve their organizations.
I wonder if being prepared to consume research and analyze data translates to graduates applying their learning after they have graduated.
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Parents notified local media outlets
I find it sad that one of the fastest ways to create change in the arena of education is to notify the media. This has happened in Denver for both the good and bad.
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The Office of Special Education Programs concluded that the PBMAS rating system effectively placed “caps” on the number of students that districts could identify as needing special education services
This reminds me of some of the arbitrary numbers that are thrust upon educators by the district and state. Classrooms, and the students, are too dynamic from year to year to have a firm percentage of growth or students identified as needing special education.
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But it still reflects myown personal reality
This sentence summed up the idea that a mathematical model is still a reflection of the person designing it.
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So they substitute stand-in data
Biases of the person choosing the stand-in data must be most obvious when they are trying to make decisions based on incomplete data.
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That kind of auditing is more common now, he says, since reports of biased algorithms have increased
I wish we had some data to back this statement up. Are companies actually auditing their algorithms or is it only when someone points out the flaws. I tend to think the latter is more common.
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This type of study is rare, because research-ers often cannot gain access to proprietary algorithms and the reams of sensitive health data needed to fully test them,
While this type of study may be rare, it should be the company's responsibility to show that they are working to reduce bias at all levels, including algorithms. It's hard to imagine what other types of injustices are occurring without people realizing it.
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- Jan 2025
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Indeed, a central aim of this book is to describe a form of intersectional feminism that takes the inequities of the present moment as its starting point and begins its own work by asking: How can we use data to remake the world?8
This is the question that I look forward to trying to answer this semester.
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This is still seen today, we likely just have different names that aren't as poignant.
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