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Today we explore the research base that tries to answer if Generative AI improves student learning. My guest, Alyssa Lawson, recently co-wrote an article that critically analysed two meta analyses of ChatGPT that found it did indeed improve learning. Alyssa and her colleagues aren’t so sure.

Alyssa Lawson is a lecturer in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Together with Amedee Martella, Joshua Weidlick, Miriam Mulders and Josef Buchner, Alyssa co-wrote the new article “Color me confounded: a critical analysis of media comparisons on ChaptGPT in education” which was published in Computers & Education.

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Today we explore the experiences of Black Caribbean youth in the United Kingdom and the United States. My guest is Derron Wallace, an assistant professor of sociology and education at Brandeis University.

Derron Wallace’s new book is The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth.

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Today we explore the adoption and scaling of education technology across South and Southeast Asia. My guests are Molly Wyss and Brad Olsen.

Molly Wyss is an assistant project director at the Centre for Universal Education in the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings, where Brad Olsen is a Senior Fellow. There new report is entitled From Access to Impact: Government Decisionmaking and Scaling of EdTech in South and Southeast Asia.

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Today we unpack various sources of distortion when calculating standardised effect sizes in education evaluations. This might seem technical, but understanding how measures of effectiveness are calculated can help us temper the confidence we place in claims about "what works." My guest is Jack Rossiter.

Jack Rossiter is an independent researcher and non-resident fellow at the Centre for Global Development. Together with David Evans, Susannah Hares, and Catherine Henny, he recently co-wrote the working paper entitled “The Illusion of Comparability Among Standardised Effect Sizes: Why Education Evaluations Should Report Raw Effects.”

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How do teachers learn to teach? My guests today, Maria Teresa Tatto and Ian Menter, discuss the many paths to become a teacher in England and the USA and the policy environment that is shaping current practice.

Learning to be a teacher, they argue, requires much more than simply having a lot of content knowledge. Just because you may know math really well does not mean that you would be a good math teach. Teaching is a skill that must be systematically learned and practiced.

Together with Katharine Burn, Trevor Mutton, and Ian Thompson, Teresa and Ian have a new co-written book entitled Learning to Teach in England and the United States: The Evolution of Policy and Practice, which was published by Routledge earlier this year.

Maria Teresa Tatto is Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University, and the Southwest Borderlands Professor of Comparative Education at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Ian Menter is Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

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