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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Research in Special Education (RiSE) is a diamond open-access journal. We’re seeking abstracts for papers on the use of open science practices in SpEd research. We wanna know how OS practices can be/have been used to support trainees and Early Career folks. @aletheiasociety.bsky.social

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Call for Submissions for a Special Series for RiSE - Aletheia

Call for Submissions for a Special Series for RiSE

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I’ve never reposted faster and delighted to see a mentor of mine speak so fiercely. I’m going to share widely with my circles.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Generative AI is gonna get really good really fast. How can it be used for our purposes in education?

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

He reiterates, “AI should not be left to its own devices.” Considerable work goes in to get the tech and the person with the expertise to speak the same language.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It’s important to consider how tech can help people realize their full capabilities, in our case human teaching and learning

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Dr. Tyler Bell tries to reassure us that the sky falling over AI is a reaction we’ve had to everything innovative, especially when computers came out.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

When providing training with new tech, it’s essential to train people on how to use it first. It’s kinda the same with AI. We gotta train it w/ different types of people.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I am learning that we have had AI things around for a while (speech to text, animation tech etc.). Generative AI is the new thing we all freak out over.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Since AI is not as smart as we are, it’s important to be comfortable with interrupting the AI to get it to course correct.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“YOUR CONTENT AREA EXPERTISE IS VALUABLE” Remember this any time you engage with an AI or VR tech. With that in mind, we can train the VR to be adaptive to various situations that might arise w/ a person.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

We discuss pros and cons of VR. W/ respect to behavior, VR can help give repeated exposures to scenarios to help w/functional behavior training. It’s gotta have an adult supervising though.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Thinking that AI is just gonna replace us is a problem. (Thank you!) so you gotta think about it as a tool, an extension of us and our knowledge. Can it help us do a thing.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Dr. Seth King (totally from Delaware, iykyk) starts off with actually giving us a definition of AI.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Future development: how can Kai be used to help teach other comprehension strategies.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

By using AI to learn how to write gist statements, student APQ responses are more robust. It’s important to note that the AI didn’t do the writing for the student. It helped scaffold their thinking so the students can accomplish the task themselves.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Does it help students be better writers? It’s better than baseline, independent work, and teacher only instruction. That’s before students use any hints. Kai is helpful, especially for an older group of students who otherwise might disengage with pen-paper.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Let’s get to the AI: the interface is very cute and easy on the eyes. One student reported that that he enjoyed using it very much, especially since the AI could give you hints if you get stuck.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Instruction obviously starts with setting a purpose and follows good instructional practices to teach “get the gist” of a passage.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Dr. Chris Lemons gets into the race with an RCT where students wrote an expos. text w/ adult, AI, or no help.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

They noticed a hiccup that I always run into- AI still makes the task take forever. However, AI is getting better and can reduce the time spent.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

In a 2024 project, the team gave a teacher CAPs resources and tasked them w/ using AI to make new modules. Students even were able to make CAPs.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Can AI help generate CAP resources for content areas other than science?

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

How can AI help with making these modules? It can reduce person working hours on such a task.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The method of making the CAPs is important. There are over 300 on vocabsupport.com. Dr. Kennedys team created them before AI.

vicabsupport.com

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Content Acquisition Podcasts (not really podcasts) is built on principles of limiting cognitive overload while conveying important info via explicit instruction. They have + effects.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If AI is helpful in writing IEPs, can it help us with DBDM? Instructional materials? If it can, the human is not eliminated because human oversight is essential. A relief because I have my own biases against AI.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

STORMed with @mjkphd.bsky.social kicks us off with an image of every terrifying robot movie. But AI is going nowhere. How does it fit with learning? Why should we maybe not fear it?

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

#PCRC closing session. AI and what it means for education. Is it good? Bad? A headache? We discuss.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Wanna know how I know that the word “photosynthesis” is the best example to use when talking about content-area specific and morphological complex words? Because someone else also pulled it out of the air as their example. I am never gonna change muahaha

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Polysemy can affect the difficulty of words. High freq high sense words can be just as hard as low freq low sense words. Fascinating.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

When it comes to making items for assessments, this type of analysis can help give you parameters for what types of words a student of a given grade might be able to handle. It aids informed assessment creation.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“The beauty of Rasch is that everything is locations!” You can see where a word will fall based on its features, in this case AoA and dispersion.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Dr. Blum is giving a master class in understanding Rasch output right now.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Rasch produces a map with students and their proficiency on an axis and the items spread over the map. This can help us analyze what word features contributed to “what makes a word hard”.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Rasch gives fit statistics which can tell analysts what questions are performing well, which are not, and candidates for getting tossed.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

IRT was used to assess the construct validity of the assessment. Rasch analysis was used. I love Rasch analysis.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Vocab assessment compare students to others. But what approaches can be used to compare students to themselves to assess their growth. They use @textproject.org ROAR.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Drs. Robin Irey and Alexander M. Blum discuss word complexity.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

When I was a science teacher, I told my kids the difference between science and playing around is “did you write it down?” This study feels like that! A fun question, a fun method, so much coding but it’s work, because it’ll be reported out to us!

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Al helped create some target words for vocab assessment. Based on strata of complexity, frequency and polysemy. It’s still unknown how these selected lists will perform during test admin, and then how it’ll play out in the IRT.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

These questions about words results in some heavy amounts of pondering and then coding. Might AI help take some of the burden? Maybe… after you do a whole lot of training to get it to behave (e.g, no swears).

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

In this item analysis, a power problem might exist. Might stratified sampling help us characterize what words are more difficult and why for different students? Another solution could be to assess more words.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

What words are more difficult and for whom? High freq and complex words are differentials difficult for low-performers.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Buckets: frequency, complexity, proximity, polysemy, diversity.

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cherishsarmiento.bsky.social @cherishsarmiento.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Given corpus linguistics, natural lang processing, and other approaches to selecting words, a factor model can be used to fit lists into different buckets.

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