Chapter 2: Building Ethical, Equitable Policies Together with the educational institution’s efforts to comply with federal student privacy laws, such as FERPA, or state privacy laws. Figure 2: The Elementary and Secondary Education Act defines four levels of evidence. Further, educational leaders are committed to basing their decisions about the adoption of educational technology on evidence of effectiveness—a central foundation of the Department’s policy. For example, the requirement to base decisions on evidence also arises in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended, which introduced four tiers of evidence (see Figure 2). Our nation’s research agencies, including the Institute of Education Sciences, are essential to producing the needed evidence. The Blueprint calls for evidence of effectiveness, but the education sector is ahead of that game: we need to insist that AI-enhanced edtech rises to meet ESEA standards as well. 2.5. Foundation 4: Promote Transparency The central role of complex AI models in a technology’s detection of patterns and implementation of automation is an important way in which AI-enabled applications, products, and services will be different from conventional edtech. The Blueprint introduces the need for transparency about AI models in terms of disclosure P a g e | 15
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