Hi everyone,

I'm seeking some advice and ideas for an upcoming class workshop I'll be leading on the topic of AI in education, particularly focusing on the limitations of Language Model-based Learning (LLMs) such as ChatGPT.

My goal is to engage students in comparative pedagogy by demonstrating the challenges and drawbacks associated with relying solely on LLMs for educational purposes. For my workshop, I'm planning to design a short activity where students prompt ChatGPT to analyze a research paper, to showcase its limitations and biases.

I'm looking for suggestions on what prompts students should use when engaging with ChatGPT to analyze the research paper. These prompts should aim to highlight the challenges LLMs face in understanding nuanced academic texts and discussing the sources of their information.

Additionally, I'm interested in ideas on how to demonstrate the biases inherent in LLMs, especially in educational contexts. This could involve exploring how LLMs might misinterpret or misrepresent certain concepts within the research paper.

Since this activity is meant to be a part of a larger class session, it should be concise and not take longer than 30 minutes. Therefore, any suggestions or ideas should be feasible within this time frame.

Hope this makes sense, any input would be super appreciated <3

Lf Developmental Psychology reviewer for board exam. Thank you!

I am currently researching teachers' experiences of the transition from Early Years to Year 1, focussing on how they support children's social and emotional skills during this time. I am looking for Year 1 teachers to participate in a Zoom interview on this topic. I have attached the participant advertisement with contact details if you would like to share your experiences.

If you have time to contribute to this research it would be greatly appreciated!

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Hey! I’m trying to get onto an educational psychology doctorate programme through the AEP in the UK atm and didn’t get shortlisted this year. I have a 2:1 integrated masters in psychology and philosophy (BPS accredited) and have worked as a teaching assistant for one and a half years, and tutor for one year before this. I was wondering if anyone had any guidance on next steps in improving my chances of getting onto the course? I was considering doing a part time masters in autism whilst still working, but this would take 3 years to complete and wasn’t sure if it was the best route to take? Any advice would be appreciated massively

Hi there, does anyone know where I can find a website/software to administer executive function (EF) tasks/tests for large classrooms of children? The goal is for each child to visit a website, do those tests, and have each score submitted into a database for the schools to review. It's to measure EF components like inhibition, working memory, shifting, etc.

We found some websites like PsyToolbox and Pavlovia, but we fear the accuray of the measured reaction time, and the depth of the tasks conducted there. I recommended CANTAB to my team but they felt it would not be easy to massively adminster across all classrooms in various schools. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated!

I‘d be interested to hear if anyone’s noticed if you or the students you work with have been sick more often in the past few years (since covid)? Those that have been working pre-2020 is there a noticeable difference?
As an extra question, have any of the schools you work in installed HEPA filters?

thanks!

Hi all!

I am a primary school teacher looking for participants for my master's dissertation with Northumbria University. The only criteria is that you must be a teacher in a primary school in the UK.

The research aims to understand how teachers respond to the needs of children in the classroom. Any help is much appreciated!

study link

Hi! My friend and I are currently University students studying education and computer science. Our community has a lot of K-12 schools that are struggling to meet our state education standards and we want to do something about it! We hope to build a tech tool driving student engagement and content retention.

Fill out here: https://forms.gle/RGw1gxp8ExMBWqz46

TLDR ~ If you are an educator (in any manner) and could answer ANY or ALL questions on this form, it would really help out a couple college kids trying to impact their community :)

Hello,

I am interested in applying for my doctorate in the next couple of years.

I trained as a primary school teacher in England over 10 years ago, worked a couple of years, moved to Scotland (for the landscape, after visiting for years) and practised as a primary teacher for 5ish years. Lost my mum (down in England) and moved back down to sort out probate etc. I completed a masters conversion to psych (to keep mind busy during a difficult time and because I've always been interested in psychology) and I've got a lovely full time teaching position down here in a fantastic school. But now looking at the next step.

One option is an Educational Psychologist role.

I am fortunate that funding is not really an issue as I can buy property in either Southampton (also where I studied my undergrad) where they have a fantastic funded course, or Dundee, which is nearby friends and has an equally fantastic course that is funded.

If I go to Southampton, I get a 15k bursary but must study full time, if I go to Scotland, the fees are paid but the course is part time so I can teach as well (plenty of experience with Scottish supply system).

Either funding suits me.

The question is, do I get a Scottish qualification or an English one?

I have no other ties to any area really. No kids no commitments.

The role attracts a higher rate of pay in Scotland (it would be a marginal pay cut initially in England) but I don't know if the Scottish qualification is as useful outside of Scotland whereas I have heard (perhaps incorrectly?) That the English qualification is recognised in places like Canada. Which of course opens opportunities as I am still only early 30s.

Eventually I'd like to return to Scotland. I prefer the pace of life. But I worked there in my twenties when career wasn't top of my mind and I never thought to 'network'. To return so soon would lose the current working network I have nurtured in a decent full time role near London.

If I get an English qualification, is it transferable? What about the other way around?

Looking for any advice from people who have qualified in one country and moved to the other, or who are currently practising and can give me any insight/opinions.

Our daughter is 5y 10m old and the school has asked her to have an educational psychology assessment. We’ve had feedback from some teachers at other schools saying that it’s too early for the results to be accurate. Is this the case?

1. They say things like "envy" doesn't feel good and show absolutely 0 distress tolerance dealing with envy and think they just don't have to take it on, sinking the overall environment for everyone to the point they became a public health crisis.
2. Social responsibility "doesn't feel good". (Clearly doesn't get pleasure from helping like an empath, which may be fair, but still needs to be figured out if they're trying to normalize their lack of pleasure-making mechanism for empaths that do get "warm glow" such as warm glow donors).
3. They don't seem able to determine the difference between these things feeling good in the short and long term and only answer to short term feeling good with no emotional memory for when things didn't initially feel good but felt much better in the long term.
4. I also think it may be true that we have to force things that don't feel good (getting a root canal), but sometimes we're told we have to do that and we don't (rape).

Thoughts?

I'm a Psychology Honours student at Southern Cross University in Australia and for my Thesis project I'm investigating how parents' conflict behaviours impact children later in life.

If you are over 18 and can recall how your parents handled disagreements between them when you were growing up (whether they were together or not), please participate in this anonymous survey.

More information here: https://scuau.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5gLqVDDBiw2Ypng

Hello,

I have a dyslexic diagnosis with significant weakness in the areas of short term memory and information processing. I am 27 and although I have been to university and have a degree the effects of these weaknesses are now greater than ever. I am aware it can cause problems with decision making, executive function and following instruction. I struggle with all three of these and don't really know where or how to start with improving them. Whenever I was studying in academia, if felt like solutions were thrown at me and not filtered, tailored or shown how to apply it to the real world.

Also I have exceedingly good visual perception and verbal reasoning & long term memory but I don't know how to use this to my benefit.

Any direction, ideas etc would be greatly appreciated

Signed, A little bit lost 🪧

I am an aspiring Ed Psych (although it’s a long while before I get there!) currently in my last year of teacher training before I get QTS.

My mum was a SENDCo and I have had an interest in the psychology, neurobiology, neuroscience, and neuropsychology, since my early teens. Over the years, i’ve consumed books, articles, journals, etc etc (probably in excess lol).

Currently having a dry spell - Just finished a 3 month placement with lesson planning & assessments and my brain wants to finally concentrate on getting stuck back in.

But I need some inspiration. What research has piqued your interest recently? (doesn’t have to be recent research!). Pls save my poor brain, which currently contains nothing but MacBeth quotes.

Reader’s digest version of anything that’s caught your attention this year! Help me get stuck in!

tia

Hi. I have used the Coventry grid which describes the differences in behaviour between ASD and Attachment Disorders. Is there a similar tool for ASD and ADHD?

I’m interested in going back to school.

My executive functions are far below average.

Would pursing any specific degree/subject build the Executive Function “muscle” more than others subjects?

My guess is that Music, Math, Language, Art, etc.. all have some unique contributions to various parts of our brain functions.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a teaching assistant in a mainstream UK school. A child in my class has finally been to CYPS for assessment about their additional needs. The child has significant learning difficulties across all areas of development. It is extremely likely that there is a specific diagnosis for the child but it is not something common that we (the adults working with them) are able to recognise. We heard today that CYPS could not diagnose anything specific so he is considered to have moderate learning difficulty by default and no further assessment will take place. Is this right? It seems shocking to me that professionals would say we don't know what their diagnosis is so we will give a vague answer and leave it at that, which is about as much as we knew ourselves to start with. Without additional support based on a diagnosis with possible extra funding, this child's future looks grim. Is there no hope for children who have conditions that are uncommon? PS there are (I think) 5 other children in the class who are also registered as "moderate learning difficulty" for lack of a confirmed assessment. This can't be normal! (Age 9)

I have a masters in educational psychology and I am not thinking to pursue a PhD at this time due to how hard of a time I had in grad school. I had a hard time adjusting and quickly became severely depressed and anxious to where I was feeling physically sick, so I didn't really get to make any meaningful connections with anyone as much as I wanted to, and it's left me really mad at myself for getting to this low point. I worry that this has sidetracked my job prospects. Though I have been a research assistant for two research teams, I feel as though my experience is not enough, and I have looked into working for schools which is what I'm leaning towards career-wise, but schools are looking for board/state-certifications which I don't have since ed psych doesn't have board/state testing. I have experience with SPSS and being a teaching assistant in my undergrad years as well as data entry/management and audio transcription and coding, but that's pretty much it. I've applied to a lot of jobs and don't know if it's possibly because I'm applying to the wrong ones, but it's left me kind of hopeless and I don't know what to do. If there are any other fellow Ed Psych people in here, I'd appreciate your insight. Thank you. :-)

I live in the UK and been considering applying for Educational psychology training for quite a while but feel like I don't know loads about the role. I'm currently an EMHP (low intensity CBT practitioner working in schools).

I did speak with a trainee Ed psych recently who did a placement in my team and discussed that some bits of what we do crosses over.

Are there any Ed psychs working in the UK who would be able to share a rough idea what their days/weeks might normally consist of?

I think one of my main worries is that it will be a lot of admin and report writing and not so much contact with young people and their families which is what I love. Also how much travel might be involved.

Hi everyone,

my name is Dora and I am doing my doctorate in psychology at the University of Bielefeld. I am currently conducting a study (in German!) about personality differences between the "real" and the digital world and about how people assess themselves vs. how they are assessed by others. In light of the ongoing massive digitalization of our daily lives, including the educational sector, these questions are more important than ever!

If you are interested in the topic, I’d be super thankful if you could take a little bit of time to fill out my survey. At the end you will receive individual personality profiles for offline and online contexts and you will also have the chance to win Best Choice vouchers.

To be able to participate, you have to speak German, be 18+ years old and have 2 people who know you well enough to describe your personality. Here is the link to the study: https://bielefeldpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42DE8FTPhn6u2Zo

If you have any questions, feel free to message me! Thank you, Dora

P.S.: You are welcome to share the link with friends or recommend other communities to me which might also be interested in the survey.

Beste netwerk,

Voor dataverzamelingsgerelateerde activiteiten voor mijn masterthesis ben ik op zoek naar participanten voor het invullen van een vragenlijst. Dit gaat over online en offline zedendelinquentie. Ik wil u hierbij vragen om even de tijd te nemen voor de vragenlijst, als u:

-Man bent -En tussen de 20 en 70 jaar oud bent

De vragenlijst kunt u vinden via deze link: https://tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2sosbcYEXnEbxQi

Uw medewerking maakt verder onderzoek en verduidelijking in het (forensische) psychologie veld mogelijk.

Alvast bedankt voor uw medewerking.

Met vriendelijke groet, Lisa

I've been reading about a lot of different psychological topics. Mainly media studies and self-determination theory. I've slowly been developing a hypothesis in my head but it's hard to articulate, so apologies if it doesn't make much sense. Here it goes;

It seems like, especially in the modern era but for a large portion of our history as a species, we go from cradle to grave with someone telling us how to think and how to behave. Ostensibly this is because humans aren't competent on their own and require someone to keep them on the proper course. But is this a self-fulfilling prophecy? Some may be hesitant to allow people more independent lifestyles for fear of belief in pseudoscience and fake news, which I understand completely. But that's a huge problem now. Is it because people have too much independence or not enough? Perhaps people fall into these traps not because they followed their own path, but because a charismatic figure told them it was the right way, or because their parents did, or something else like that.

If people are consistently raised to make their own desicions and given a large degree of autonomy, are they more successful in their later years? Are they more or less likely to believe in pseudoscience and fake news? How successful are sudbury schools and other democratic education schemes that focus on giving children freedom?

Hello, I am a third-year educational psychology undergraduate student who is carrying out a dissertation project titled “A picture paints a thousand words. Exploring how autism is conceptualised using photo elicitation”. I am looking for participants who are willing to take part in my research, it will take around 5 minutes to complete. The study will require you to choose an image that represents your perceptions of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and then describe why you chose that image. If you are interested in participating in this study, then please follow the link provided below. Thank you.

https://edgehillpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eWDfx9hQlYTSJx4

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I’d love to hear what teachers think!

I’m a school psychology grad student at Rider University. I’m wondering about teacher’s perceptions about school psychology-based interventions.

Any responses help a ton for making my study more valid! The more responses the stronger my data is, so thank you to everyone who helps out!

Please take 10 minutes to fill out my form, it would help a ton!

Teacher’s Perceptions of School Psychology-Based Interventions