ERIC Number: EJ1378243
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1743-9884
EISSN: EISSN-1743-9892
The Politics and Reciprocal (Re)Configuration of Accountability and Fairness in Data-Driven Education
Learning, Media and Technology, v48 n1 p95-108 2023
As awareness of bias in educational machine learning applications increases, accountability for technologies and their impact on educational equality is becoming an increasingly important constituent of ethical conduct and accountability in education. This article critically examines the relationship between so-called algorithmic fairness and algorithmic accountability in education. I argue that operative political meanings of accountability and fairness are constructed, operationalized, and reciprocally configured in the performance of algorithmic accountability in education. Tools for measuring forms of unwanted bias in machine learning systems, and technical fixes for mitigating them, are value-laden and may conceal the politics behind quantifying educational inequality. Crucially, some approaches may also disincentivize systemic reforms for substantive equality in education in the name of accountability.
Descriptors: Algorithms, Accountability, Data Collection, Educational Policy, Equal Education, Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Politics of Education, Educational Change, Technology Uses in Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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