NM #primaryschool students will take the “#AI enhanced” Amira reading test (replacing iStation). When asked how the AI will be able to correctly compute #newcomer accents, speech impediments, etc. to accurately determine #student #fluency and placement, the trainer - I kid you not - opened up the Amira AI chat to ask it how it worked. It received a very confident answer about using multiple measures. This happened in front of my actual eyeballs. #education #elementary #newmexico #assessment
NM #primaryschool students will take the “#AI enhanced” Amira reading test (replacing iStation). When asked how the AI will be able to correctly compute #newcomer accents, speech impediments, etc. to accurately determine #student #fluency and placement, the trainer - I kid you not - opened up the Amira AI chat to ask it how it worked. It received a very confident answer about using multiple measures. This happened in front of my actual eyeballs. #education #elementary #newmexico #assessment
Yes, I know how you feel. Their response to my complaint last year was that they only do outreach, not enforcement. Same for CoARA, by the way.
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/11/research-assessment-new-panels-new-luck/
IMHO, DORA et al. have no teeth at all and hence no consequences whatsoever, beyond stirring hope that then gets crushed.
YES!
"nformation systems that support the documentation and assessment of research activities should therefore, in future and as a common good, be open, freely usable and science-led"
The future development of assessment processes for research activity in the context of open science
Excellent: "More than 100 institutions and funders worldwide have confirmed that research published in #eLife continues to be considered in hiring, promotion, and funding decisions, following the journal’s bold move to forgo its Journal Impact Factor."
https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/bf74b86e/more-than-100-institutions-and-funders-confirm-recognition-of-elife-papers-signalling-support-for-open-science
PS: This is not just a step to support eLife, but a step to break the stranglehold of bad metrics in research assessment. For the same reason, it's a step toward more honest and less simplistic assessment.
#Academia#Assessment#JIF#Metrics#Universities
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