allison godfrey

data, photography, education

educational discipline through remote testing surveillance

11 December 2020

With the recent surge and adoption of educational technologies to ease the transition to remote learning in these unprecedented times amidst a pandemic, some schools have adjusted by adopting platforms offering student testing surveillance systems to replicate a classroom testing environment...

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when an algorithm replaces cash bail

14 October 2020

In an effort to make the criminal justice system more economically equitable, California Senate Bill 10 replaced cash bail with a predictive algorithm producing a risk assessment score to determine if the accused needs to remain in jail before their trial...

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probability of success: 0.999

23 April 2020

Data science has infiltrated many fields, helping to increase revenue, scale out business practices, improve recommender systems, predict outcomes, drive business decisions and make causal inferences...

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what you don't know can hurt you

10 February 2020

Growing up, I never felt like I was different from my male counterparts. I never felt less than. And I never felt like anyone was treating me as if I were less than. But it’s not just about how I felt on the path I was on. It’s also about the paths that were implicitly blocked from my view...

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but... what's my grade?

16 May 2019

It’s the fourth week of school. I’m in the middle of handing back student quizzes, running all over the classroom trying to get them all back under 5 minutes. Teachers definitely get their steps in. I graded these quizzes a bit differently and am anxiously awaiting the student responses...

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