Min Sun

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has great potential to augment teachers' effectiveness and personalize learning opportunities to enhance both the quality and equity of student learning outcomes. Nevertheless, the content generated by general-purpose AI tools has shortcomings, with limited conceptual depth and inadequate understanding of pedagogical principles and student learning. Consequently, schools and districts are concerned about overreliance on technology as a replacement f...

The use of education technologies is generating large quantities of data at unprecedented speed. These data (e.g., the prose in digital instructional materials, social media data, clickstreams from e-learning platforms) are largely unstructured or noisy, meaning that they are not arranged according to a preset data model and/or have many complicated attributes. The features of these data make it difficult to use conventional analytic tools and techniques. This training program will prepare e...

Starting from 2018-19, Seattle Public Schools (SPS) will embark on a joint labor management program-Peer Assistance and Review (PAR)-with the teacher union. The PAR system will apply to all beginning and veteran teachers who are identified as needing improvement based on annual evaluation ratings. This partnership will focus on three aims: (a) to gather information on teacher effectiveness and human resource practices; (b) to conduct data inquiries to study the initial PAR implementation and...