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Michael Ralph

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PhD Ed Psych Director of Research for Multistudio, lecturer at Univ of Kansas, & co-founder of CAUSE. Co-host edu research podcast Two Pint PLC. Studies learning in space to guide inclusive, effective teaching practice & school design.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 25d

The first version of CAUSE's public, freely-available guide to evaluating learning environments is now available!

Read about the measures and see how you can integrate them into your surveys. #AcademicSky #EduSky

www.causecoalition.org/user-guide

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Chelsea @chelseamdo.bsky.social · 8h

As a reminder

Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods by Michael Quinn Patton

is fantastic and I very much appreciate it as I approach my dissertation proposal (and eventual data collection)

I give @drbritwilliams.bsky.social full credit for recommending it

Chelsea @chelseamdo.bsky.social · 8h

Reading the end of this textbook has me like "this 700+ page textbook is all about qualitative research but... What even *is* research?"

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 13h

The 2025 "He's clear about his goals" distinguished speaker, right here.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 14h

I would settle for the McDougle “she’s trying her best” grant.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 14h

Is there a MacArthur "Ain't No Genius" prize? Because I'd be competitive. 🤨

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 14h

Hiking is better than detention.

Smash that publish button.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h

When the students at this Maine high school got detention, they would sit in a classroom for a few hours after school.

A counselor had the idea to offer students an option to hike instead. After their first hikes, they found it improved their moods.

School offers hikes instead of detention. Teachers are seeing results.

“People seem really different in a good way at the end,” said Leslie Trundy, a Maine high school counselor and avid hiker.

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Data Elixir @dataelixir.com · 15h

Your ggplot2 charts work fine, but are they memorable? Real color engineering: brightness first (strongest differentiator), then hue, finally saturation. Most people get this backwards and wonder why their viz falls flat. www.chartography.net/p/color-engi...

Color Engineering

The tool that snaps mercurial design into mechanical focus.

www.chartography.net

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 1d

Cake or cupcakes with no frosting.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 1d

'We wanted to study the impact of nature, so we showed participants pictures of nature on a computer. We did not find any effect.'

wut

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 2d

Repost, but more angry this time.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 2d

For all our improvements, the Kansas City secondary is still Swiss cheese.

No ability to play the ball at all.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 2d

For all our improvements, the Kansas City secondary is still Swiss cheese.

No ability to play the ball at all.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 2d

Woof... 99yd pick-six. Ouch.

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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 2d

Over 400 faculty and staff from the #uva College of Arts and Sciences convened for an emergency vote. 97% of eligible voters endorsed a resolution demanding President Mahoney refuse to consider the Trump admin's Compact for Academic Freedom!!

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 2d

Man... This Kansas City offense looks alive for the first time in two years.

Night and day.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 2d

Dotters are rocking TSwift on 11 in the workshop while they eat ice cream and work on their 3D printed art projects (painting and printing).

It is the coolest thing I have ever witnessed in my whole life. They are so rad.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 2d

I am really digging into the details of what will be in the TALIS data drop tomorrow... and I am absolutely floored by all the new stuff.

This is REALLY good work from the OECD team. Some forward-thinking updates I was not assuming would be in here. Wow.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 2d

You can always tell when I'm working on a lit review, because you'll hear me humming the ABCs over and over under my breath each time I need to place a new reference...

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 3d

This is pretty close to my current position, personally.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

I'd also identify a third position, "I see or imagine there are meaningful uses for LLMs, but that they are relatively few (not 'everything') and relatively small (+10%, not +10000%) and so may not support the cost of model building and inference or the valuation of these companies."

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 4d

I think a lot of people who are reasonable AI skeptics are saying things like “I don’t see a reliable use for LLMs in areas I’m an expert in” and that those folks are quite distinct from people who argue that LLMs don’t have capabilities that they clearly do

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 5d

Universal Design for Learning is a great way to think about supporting learners - but did you know it's also a great way to think about doing research? In this podcast episode, Dr. Samantha Daley talks about her wonderful article on using UDL to inform research.
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Samantha G. Daley

Dr. Samantha G. Daley joins podcast host Dr. Jeff Greene to discuss her Educational Psychologist article, “Universal design of educational psychology? Improving theory and application by focusing on s

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Thomas S. Dee @tomdee.bsky.social · 5d

🚨Do you know a school, system, or network doing amazing work in support of student success in high school, particularly through a continuous-improvement approach?

Let's recognize them! Encourage them to apply for the Carnegie Award for Impact (cfdn.at/4o4gp58).
Applications due on November 10.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 6d

#PairedTexts

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 6d

Bookmarking for the right moment in the future.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy!
Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster.
Competence matters.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 7d

You'll be shocked to learn New College of Florida is on the brink of implosion just a couple of years after DeSantis engineered an extreme right-wing takeover

Fun fact: NCF's new overlords spend $134K per student (!!...the average at other FL publics is $10K) www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, I'm super with you here.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 7d

I have found this is everything. The user's own valence to their use is so so telling for me.

Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 7d

This is very relevant to a staff discussion we had today as we craft our org's AI use policy. People were talking about how to detect AI use, changing words to make it seem not-AI, and our Research Director asked "Why do you feel the need to hide that you used AI?" I thought it was a great q.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 7d

Got ya. Yeah... I have my guesses, but that's all they are.

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 7d

It's been a minute since I looked at the study... But I think disclosure was a part of their study?

Do you mean compared to attempting to keep it a secret?

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 7d

Let's play a game called "how many times can this presenter call images and AI 'objective' before I lose it"...

So far I am winning, but it's a close race.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 7d

Reposting this study at this particular moment for absolutely no reason at all.

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · Aug 22

This isn't exactly to your question, but seems relevant? I think this study got a cycle in The Discourse™ a little while back.

"Individuals who use AI tools face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from others."

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI | PNAS

Despite the rapid proliferation of AI tools, we know little about how people who use them are perceived by others. Drawing on theories of attributi...

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