Equity-oriented research methodology¶
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Description¶
Drawing on the National Academies of Sciences 2022 report, the article frames equity-oriented research methodologically in two ways: "1) to look at differences between groups and 2) to design conditions that can enhance the performance of historically and systemically excluded groups." The report also calls for validated measures beyond just student outcomes, extending to "measures of the structural and contextual factors that shape student outcomes," including measures of teacher development, practice, and effectiveness, and measures to understand equity and inequity. The article positions DLPs as promising for supporting the design of conditions approach.
Accounts¶
- Equity-oriented research methodology: two approaches and measures of structural and contextual factors: Drawing on the National Academies of Sciences 2022 report, the article frames equity-oriented research methodologically in two ways: "1) to look at differences between groups and 2) to design conditions that can enhance the performance of historically and systemically excluded groups." The report also calls for validated measures beyond just student outcomes, extending to "measures of the structural and contextual factors that shape student outcomes," including measures of teacher development, practice, and effectiveness, and measures to understand equity and inequity. The article positions DLPs as promising for supporting the design of conditions approach. (Designing for the future of research: Putting equity-relevant research into practice with )
- Two-part epistemic shift in validating LLM-based measures of student talk: The article proposes a framework in which validation is treated as a knowledge-production practice shaped by epistemic authority. It argues "language should not be treated solely as a text-based representation, but as a situated, social, cultural, and embodied experience" requiring re-contextualization, and that youth should enter validation as epistemic authorities on their own talk, not merely subjects of expert annotation. The framework draws on epistemic agency, authority, and exclusion constructs, extending them from classroom interaction to the research process itself. (Liliana Santos-Deonizio et al. (2027))
- Common design features of exemplary race-reimaging studies: From three exemplar race-reimaging studies (López et al. 2022 on SDT; Fong et al. 2019 on belonging; Gray et al. 2020 on utility value), the article identifies shared design features: scholars "foregrounded a variety of social-cultural-historical theories as they centered race in their inquiry", and participant selection and methods honored the POC who participated, with no White control group and mixed methods used to share participants' voices as counterstories. (Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby · Paul A. Schutz (2024))
Claims¶
- During member checks, multilingual 8th-grade students contested both LLM classifications of their talk and the coding scheme itself, especially the Off-task and Claim codes [+M]
- Ethnographically-oriented methods surface five dimensions of classroom context that text-only transcripts omit, including multimodal communication and relationships [+M]
Related Research Methods¶
Key Sources¶
- Pakhira, D., & Fusco, J. (2022, October). Designing for the future of research: Putting equity-relevant research into practice with scenarios and personas. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/163
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Equity-oriented research methodology |
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Drawing on the National Academies of Sciences 2022 report, the article frames equity-oriented research methodologically in two ways: "1) to look at differences between groups and 2) to design conditions that can enhance the performance of historically and systemically excluded groups." The report al |
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