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Prominent chatbots routinely exaggerate science findings, study shows

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Prominent chatbots routinely exaggerate science findings, study shows

When summarizing scientific studies, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and DeepSeek produce inaccurate conclusions in up to 73% of cases, according to a study by Uwe Peters (Utrecht University) and Benjamin Chin-Yee ...

Education

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AI can be a danger to students. Three things universities must do

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is trained on enormous bodies of text, video and images to identify patterns. It then creates new texts, videos and images on the basis of this pattern identification. Thanks to machine ...

Education

10 hours ago

Where tomorrow's scientists prefer to live, and where they'd rather not

Graduate students interested in an academic career after graduation day have often been told they need to be open to moving somewhere they may not want to live. This advice is because of how hard it is to get a tenure-track ...

Social Sciences

11 hours ago

Developers, educators view AI harms differently, research finds

Teachers are increasingly using educational tools that leverage large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT for lesson planning, personalized tutoring and more in K-12 classrooms around the world.

Education

11 hours ago

Researcher encourages social workers and students to influence federal public policy through the regulatory process

Social workers and students should always make their voices heard, but particularly during this tumultuous period for federal rulemaking, says Kathryn Libal, UConn social work and human rights professor and director of the ...

Social Sciences

14 hours ago

Philosopher Hannah Arendt provokes us to rethink what education is for in the era of AI

In the 1954 essay "The Crisis in Education", German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt argued that crisis can act as an opportunity to revisit questions that have produced presumed and outdated answers.

Education

May 12, 2025

New definition for bullying released to better support pupils and schools

A new definition for bullying has been released to better support school pupils and teaching staff, particularly in special educational needs and disability (SEND) settings.

Education

May 12, 2025

Why it's important to read aloud to your kids—even after they can read themselves

Is reading to your kids a bedtime ritual in your home? For many of us, it will be a visceral memory of our own childhoods. Or of the time raising now grown-up children.

Social Sciences

May 10, 2025

Educator offers framework for higher ed to defend racial equity

As the nation's colleges and universities respond to the U.S. Supreme Court's "race-neutral" admissions mandates and the Trump administration's efforts to cut funding to campuses with DEI programs, a UC Riverside education ...

Education

May 9, 2025

Basic research advances science, and can also have broader impacts on modern society

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn't just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists. This component, referred ...

Economics & Business

May 8, 2025

How proposed changes to higher education accreditation could impact campus diversity efforts

President Donald Trump on April 23, 2025, signed an executive order that aims to change the higher education accreditation process. It asks accrediting agencies to root out "discriminatory ideology" and roll back diversity, ...

Education

May 8, 2025

High attendance linked to fewer gun-related expulsions

Higher student attendance coincides with fewer illegal gun-related expulsions in Michigan public K-12 schools, according to research led by the University of Michigan.

Social Sciences

May 8, 2025

Chinese research isn't taken as seriously as papers from elsewhere, researchers find

My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world's most reputable economics journals to study citations, which are where academics ...

Other

May 8, 2025

AI isn't replacing student writing, but it is reshaping it

I'm a writing professor who sees artificial intelligence as more of an opportunity for students, rather than a threat.

Education

May 7, 2025

Study finds giving pre-service social studies teachers practice in teaching difficult topics boosts confidence

If practice makes perfect, teachers should not be expected to teach difficult topics to students without a chance to rehearse in a low-stakes setting.

Education

May 7, 2025

Does free schooling give girls a better chance in life? Burundi study shows the poorest benefited most

Teenage pregnancy rates remain high across many parts of the developing world: In Africa, on average, about one in ten girls between the ages of 15 and 19 has already given birth. These early pregnancies often come with serious ...

Education

May 7, 2025

Contemplating art's beauty found to boost abstract and 'big picture' thinking

Since the dawn of philosophy, thinkers from Plato to Kant have considered how beauty affects human experience, and whether it has the power to transform our state of mind.

Social Sciences

May 6, 2025

Did the pandemic lockdowns improve digital skills?

Many video calls in 2020 began with "Can you hear me?" Digital work was still relatively uncommon in Germany at the time, and many struggled with both the technology and the new form of communication. A recent study by four ...

Social Sciences

May 6, 2025

Global science faces persistent geographic disparities

There is an increasing awareness and understanding in global science about a troubling and persistent research imbalance, where studies overwhelmingly originate from economically developed countries, particularly those in ...

Economics & Business

May 6, 2025