Daniel Muijs
@danielmuijs.bsky.social
Professor of Education, Queen’s University Belfast
Education
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Psychology
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Why ChatGPT for Teachers Might Make Things Worse
OpenAI have just released ChatGPT for Teachers which I have just spent the morning looking at it and I have concerns.
carlhendrick.substack.com
Very useful review by @carlhendrick.substack.com on ChatGPT for Teachers. Unfortunately, the current iteration is pedagogically unsound and informed by various EduMyths (e.g. learning styles). But there are opportunities, not least designing spaced practice: carlhendrick.substack.com/p/why-chatgp...
Daniel Muijs
@danielmuijs.bsky.social
· Oct 21
However, it does raise questions about some existing taken-for-granted's in educational research, which in itself is helpful and a reason to do more studies using non-linear models like this one.
Daniel Muijs
@danielmuijs.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Instructional practices was operationalised through the German three-factor model, with cognitive activation the main measure. My view is that this model doesn't work (the findings are very inconsistent across studies), and this may be another factor.
Daniel Muijs
@danielmuijs.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Does this mean we need to jettison the existing model? Not quite yet. There are a number of limitations in the PISA-TALIS linked dataset. Leadership was conceptualised as distributed and instructional, but each only had a few variables in the dataset.
Daniel Muijs
@danielmuijs.bsky.social
· Oct 21
We did not find the traditional causal model of leadership leading to better attainment through instruction. Rather, the relationship was highly complex, and in fact we found clusters of high attainment where scores on the measured leadership and instructional practices were low
Daniel Muijs
@danielmuijs.bsky.social
· Oct 21
How school leadership and innovation shape instructional pathways to student achievement across nations: Evidence from multilevel structural equation modeling and decision tree analysis
Educational leadership, innovation and teaching play essential roles in shaping student achievement. However, extant literature primarily has relied o…
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New Open Access article by Burak Aydin, Marjolein Fokkema, Nurullah Eryilmaz, Ronny Scherer, Marcus Pietsch and me on the relationship between school leadership, teaching and achievement using the PISA-TALIS 2018 link dataset. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Daniel Muijs
@danielmuijs.bsky.social
· Oct 5
This description of the Irish Curriculum spec for the English LC by @finn_mcredmond is a perfect example of the vacuousness of many curricula. Typical of what we often see when curriculum developers are afraid to specify actual content and scared of setting high expectations.