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Researchers Try Using AI Chatbots to Conduct Interviews for Social Science Studies

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The chatbot interviewer is part of an experiment by two professors at the London School of Economics, who argue that AI could change the game when it comes to measuring public opinion in a variety of fields. “It For example, this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry went to scholars who used AI to predict protein folds.

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New Effort Hopes to Make ‘Weed-Out’ Courses More Equitable

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Organic chemistry , anyone?) The project, funded from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and housed at Educause, prioritizes 20 key gateway courses, including introductory classes in biology, chemistry, English, economics and psychology, as well as math classes like algebra and calculus, and U.S. history surveys.

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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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SpringerOpen SpringerOpen features research a wide variety of peer-reviewed research articles spanning different disciplines including social sciences, humanities, science, technology, medicine, economics, biomedicine, chemistry, computer science, psychology, and many more.

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Readers Respond: Does Fixing the Leaky STEM Pipeline Require Calculus To Adapt?

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In MBA school it was only used in an economics course. In undergrad, when I switched out of music, I picked a new major by looking for something that I was interested in studying and didn't require calculus or organic chemistry. A teacher from Kansas : “In college, calculus was a requirement for the business school. That was it.

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The Metaverse Hype Died Down. Where Does That Leave Colleges That Invested In It?

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But the concept resonated, says Marcy Drummond, the college’s vice president of economic and social mobility innovation. Some of the initial lessons that the university wanted to create, like organic chemistry and anatomy labs, required details that raised the expense and priced the school out. “I

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Facing Pressure on Enrollment, Will Colleges Support More Transfer Students?

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For example, if it’s part of the mission of a bachelor’s degree-granting institution to educate diverse students and facilitate economic mobility, then supporting transfer students from community colleges fits the bill, LaViolet says. A few pressures might incentivize four-year colleges to step up their efforts.

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How To Make Someone Not Hate Math

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I wasn’t particularly mathy before then, but after that, math and I had a no-contact policy that would only reverse late in my college career when I became interested in economics and statistics. She started studying organic chemistry but became overwhelmed, and she stopped out of higher ed altogether.

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