Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2017

As a researcher of neuroscience and a pianist myself, I understand that the mastering of this skill not only takes practice, but also requires complex coordination of many different brain regions. In 2012, our research group at the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California began a five-year study that did just that.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Some researchers think these small-scale efforts to teach math in context could transform how it’s taught more broadly. She had to drop out in 2012 after getting injured in a house fire. “We actually learned equations I’m going to use, like setting ladder rungs,” he said. Stone explained how math in context works.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

EdSurge connected with educators who decided to leave the classroom this year and with researchers focused on child psychology and student achievement to better understand how turnover impacts teachers and students—and why the retention crisis remains, despite efforts to return to normalcy. And we just didn't.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

The disabilities range from dyslexia and speech impairments to emotional and psychological disorders that include hyperactivity and aggression. The exception was among students in first grade in 2012, where he found that Black children were more likely to be separated from their peers than similar white children.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. But what is it, exactly?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea, who earned her college degree in English literature in 2012, is a temp in a law firm and drives people around on weekday mornings and through the weekends. More businesses must open their doors to students through internships, summer employment opportunities, research intensives and other experiential learning options.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Tahiv McGee, who graduated from North Star this spring and will attend Pomona College this fall, explains the research study he worked on at Rutgers-Newark. Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 21, 2015

In the research literature, the learning advantage of distributed over massed practice is known as the spacing effect. In general, the research evidence is clear that spaced or distributed practice is superior to massed practice for long-term learning and retention. in Cognitive Psychology at Washington University in St.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

based research organization focusing on Hispanics. Hispanic high school graduates nationwide have started to enroll in college at slightly faster rates than non-Hispanic whites and blacks, according to the Pew Research Center. With the help of several scholarships, Jose Perez enrolled at the school in 2012 as a freshman.

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Jonathan Firth

JULY 19, 2016

The testing effect is a well-known psychological phenomena whereby people remember things better if they are tested on them. This phenomenon can certainly be applied to self-testing during revision; students who do this appear to get better grades (see Hartwig & Dunlosky, 2012). Image via Pixabay.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2019

This is especially true among the many who were promised free tuition and small stipends to work as teaching or research assistants, but who have been surprised to find they still have to pay thousands of dollars in fees with euphemistic names and indeterminate purposes. Graduate students are “a core engine of research and discovery.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

We almost doubled people’s learning rate,” says Vincent Clark, a professor of psychology and clinical neuroscience at the University of New Mexico who conducted this research with his colleagues. Since the 2012 publication of that research, he and other scholars have replicated the study several times with similar results.

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Jonathan Firth

MARCH 14, 2019

Cognitive psychology has shown that in order to use your study time effectively, you should pay more attention to what you do during your study sessions. For example, several research studies (e.g. Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology.

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Jonathan Firth

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

It’s always good to see teachers engaging with research, asking questions, and trying to make their practice evidence informed. Interleaving, at least as it is defined in the research literature, relates to short items — specific questions, one-sentence examples, images. The latter would be called a ‘blocked sequence’. Kornell, N.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

percent , according to a 2019 study co-authored by Jean Twenge , a psychology professor at San Diego State University. His kitchen-sink approach dramatically increases the school’s graduation rate in short order, from 51 percent in 2012 to 70 percent in 2018. Between 2013 and 2018, the percentage of undergraduates at U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2023

The effort in New York, known as direct admission, comes after SUNY has seen an overall enrollment decline of about 21 percent since 2012. While SUNY’s and national enrollments appear to be stabilizing as of this past spring, researchers expect this to be a return to the pre-pandemic trend rather than a turnaround.

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Jonathan Firth

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The psychology of human memory can help us to answer this question. Forgetting is fast A classic finding in experimental psychology – dating back over one hundred years – is the forgetting curve. This error is found in the world outside of the psychology lab, too. It is not intuitive. References Dempster, F. Zechmeister, E.

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Jonathan Firth

DECEMBER 11, 2019

None of these ideas are supported by mainstream psychological science; a linked study of psychology researchers found 0% endorsement in every case. Although this is popular advice and can on occasion provide reassurance to learners, memory researchers such as Robert Bjork advocate varying our study locations.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

I see this choice as being largely due to my enthusiasm for helping to develop the new generation of Psychology teachers at a key time for the subject's development in Scottish schools, but it's also the case that I was motivated by a desire for pedagogy-related career progression which was otherwise absent.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 30, 2021

Research shows how students learn best, and it's not by talking at them for extended periods. By constructing a psychologically safe environment through reframing metacognitive interpretation of subjective difficulty, children can express their full cognitive potential (Autin & Croizet, 2012). Help learners embrace mistakes.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective. Implicit is a view of consciousness as an aspect of human autopoiesis.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

So, in 2012, the district created an office of advanced and enriched instruction to keep more middle-class families in the system and simultaneously serve the learning needs of its high-performing, low-income students. They also studied the psychology of trauma, wrote their own trauma narratives and had the opportunity to meet Fidel.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Online content moderators, reviewing harmful materials, risk psychological trauma. ” Some professions are more dangerous than others.

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If we want the Montessori method to be validated through research, we must make the method known to those who would study it. The research shows that sticking with the authentic Montessori materials is more beneficial for learning (Lillard, 2012). Behaviour Research and Therapy , 95 , 87-98. Johnsen, D. Lillard, A.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Being Tasered by a school resource officer can also traumatize a child psychologically. Indeed, the Obama administration funded a program to hire up to 1,000 school resource officers and counselors a year after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. It’s a natural instinct to want to protect children.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived. Buck had earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Dublin the year before the ban. In Louisiana, researchers have found that 48 percent of ex-offenders end up re-incarcerated within five years. Metz waved her niece off.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In an important 2012 paper and in follow-on research published just this year, Rowe found that diversity of words is more predictive of future language skills, especially as a baby grows through toddlerhood. To read more research-based articles on education, visit Usable Knowledge.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Due to the ongoing occupation, it is not clear exactly how many deaf schools there are in Gaza, although internet research reveals at least two: the ASDC and the Mustafa Sadiq Rafii school. In 2012, the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children led a training in gastronomy and food service ahead of opening the first deaf restaurant in Gaza.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency. API’s vice president of communications delivered a special presentation to the board in 2012 on marketing strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

This exclusion also belittles the hundreds of lives that have been negatively affected by gun violence, from Columbine in 1999 to Sandy Hook in 2012 to Parkland earlier this year. Clearly, the Parkland students have done their research, and have viable recommendations for reducing gun violence in our society.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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