Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Intriguing research shows that popular approaches to motivate students using rewards such as money, gold stars, or points (called “extrinsic motivators”) may in fact lead them to lose interest in learning (1). For several years, the pair has worked as part of a research partnership that supports St. Relatedness.

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JULY 27, 2016

Developed by University of Texas-Austin psychology professor David Yeager, purpose for learning teaches students to learn with the goal of making a broader, positive impact on the world. Research shows that when students learn with compassionate or altruistic intentions, they view their academic work as more meaningful and beneficial (4,5).

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

All students, including white students, benefit from having teachers of color, according to a summary of the research by the Learning Policy Institute. And students of color do better academically and are more likely to graduate and go to college if some of their teachers look like them, research shows. This work is possible. “I

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this third post, we explore how Powerful Learning is collaborative and connected, share research that grounds these two principles, and provide resources to support your own learning and teaching practices. Students are highly attuned to social dynamics, and research shows that relationships can drive learning. Palincsar, A.S.

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MARCH 11, 2019

In the field of engineering, for example, women earned fewer than 20 percent of doctorates in 2014. As researchers who study how stereotypes and other psychological factors can dissuade girls from pursuing careers in math and science, we believe that parents and educators can help turn things around and close the gender gaps in STEM.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Jenifer Fox — who wrote the book “Your Child’s Strengths” and in 2014 helped create The Delta School in Wilson, Arkansas, which uses the strengths approach — went further, calling it “the magic bullet.”. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup.

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MARCH 26, 2018

At the time, The New York City Department of Education was developing a research division focused solely on student motivation. Alicia Wolcott, a school advisor for Eskolta School Research and Design, a New York-based education-consulting firm that is working with the New York City Department of Education on academic and personal behaviors.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

She arrived for class one day in the summer of 2014 and was met with chaos. Yet a Hechinger Report review of news reports since 2014 found more than 30 schools like Anamarc that announced their closings with little or no warning. By that summer of 2014, the federal government knew that Anamarc was struggling.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

When I went to meet with him, he helped me with studying, with finding more resources and with stress management,” said Shields, 23, a psychology major. By 2014, for lower-income students (those eligible for a federal Pell grant), it reached 51 percent — nearly the same as for non-Pell students. It’s actually very exciting.”.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind. And not having a mentor can slow career progression.

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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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MAY 11, 2016

For instance, on the opposite coast, California certified fewer bilingual teachers in 2014-15 than any other year in the past decade. In 2014, employed paraprofessionals’ median earnings were merely $18,000 per year, or just above 150 percent of the federal poverty line for a single adult. And over half of the states in the U.S.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

The distraction researchers at Dominguez Hills — Cheever, and psychologists Larry Rosen and Mark Carrier — are digging deeper into compulsive tech use. Between 2011 and 2017, the percentage of American adults who own a smartphone more than doubled, to 77 percent , according to the Pew Research Center. Divided minds.

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MARCH 25, 2019

In 2014, Carly Robinson, a Ph.D. Together with three other researchers at Harvard, UCLA and Stanford, she set up an elaborate experiment with more than 15,000 middle and high school students in California during the 2015-16 school year. at a March 2019 conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. where there is just one school district, 77 percent of white students with special needs who exited during the 2014-15 school year left with a diploma, while just 57 percent of their black and Latino peers did.

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JUNE 3, 2020

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. a research analyst for higher education at Ed Trust.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Researchers have found that low-income students are more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree if they attend more challenging institutions, so Sci’s teachers encouraged the teenagers to enroll in the highest-ranked schools that would accept them — no matter how white, how far away, how foreign. psychology class. I felt inadequate.

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JULY 7, 2022

It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. They write brief papers and give short oral reports, building skills and stamina they eventually will need to complete and present a capstone research project, their final assignment before they graduate. The course is called Transformations. What is happening?’”

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MAY 17, 2016

Temple University, a public research university in Philadelphia, has bucked the national trends. Temple has seen the proportion of its students who return for their sophomore year increase from 70 percent in 2001 to 82 percent in 2014. Paul Tough, author of the book Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why.

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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. Memory research in this area suggests that retrieval of information plays a fundamental role in the way a new memory forms. Retrieval practice can be used in a huge range of learning tasks. Image via Pixabay.

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Jonathan Firth

MAY 30, 2017

Finding and interpreting educational research can be a challenge for teachers. I recently joined and met with SURE - ‘School and University Research Enquiry’, a research group which has put several schools in the Glasgow area in contact with the University of Strathclyde in order to exchange knowledge and conduct new research.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In my teaching subject (psychology) it might involve giving learners a real-world scenario in which to apply their learning of a concept such as conformity or altruism, and that could be done verbally or using a whiteboard or slide. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 3 (3), 131-139. outdoor learning). D’Antonio, L.,

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AUGUST 7, 2016

A research compendium about juvenile corrections education from the UCLA Adolescent Health Partnership Project noted that abbreviated class time is endemic; a federal survey found that only one-third of youth confined in pretrial detention facilities received six or more hours of education a day. Most are young men of color.

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MAY 2, 2024

Research shows that free college has had some effect, but not as much as you might think. Despite the recent uptick, Jenkins points out that community college enrollment in Massachusetts is actually down nearly 40 percent since 2014. Kirk: Researchers say Bihembo, who graduated in two years, is the exception. Kirk: Yeah.

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MAY 31, 2016

Indeed, research supports the idea that sensitive parenting is beneficial. A study published in the journal Child Development in 2014 found that those born in poverty who received sensitive parenting functioned better socially and academically into adulthood. “I Related: Why Oklahoma’s preschools are some of the best in the country.

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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. Testing, in contrast, promotes active retrieval of information (see Karpicke et al, 2014 , for a discussion of theoretical explanations behind the testing effect).

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2016

This question is the subject of a long-running debate in psychology, and is the focus of the new book “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise” by Florida State University psychologist Anders Ericsson and science writer Robert Pool. Researchers found that skill level correlated with deliberate practice.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Moreover, with regard to syndemics Horton tweeted , The anthropology community is ahead of medicine and public health.Once labeled a little-known buzzword that nonetheless describes our troubled times in Smithsonian Magazine , syndemic theory now informs a rich body of health research and interventions. Why teach syndemics?

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JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. in rhetoric and composition but has largely focused her research on the experiences of women veterans. “We He said he believes Missouri’s program, first offered in 2014, was among the first in the country.

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History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Nick Davis: currently a World Studies, AP Psychology and Black Studies teacher at Von Steuben High School in Chicago. Paula was in my Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

The concept behind these so-called “trauma-informed schools” is supported by research showing that traumatized students — those who have been exposed to repeated violence, abuse and deprivation — maintain such high levels of vigilance and anxiety that they cannot flourish at school until they can calm themselves. Photo: Clarence Williams.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Over lunch at the CNA company cafeteria, a handful of interns chatted with T J Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees ChiTech’s Real-World Learning program and regularly checks in at student worksites. From 2014 to 2016, the percentage of ChiTech freshmen on track to graduate in four years rose from 63 to 78 percent.

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JULY 1, 2017

For decades, McKinney-Vento has been criticized as ineffective, with researchers reporting that the law has not been rigorously implemented. A 2014 report from the American Institutes for Research and the National Center on Family Homelessness ranked Mississippi 49th out of the 50 states in identifying and serving homeless children.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In 2014, the high school was chosen as the top urban high school in America by the National Center for Urban School Transformation. We watch the show and dissect it.”. percent in 2009 to 87.9

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

million since 1995, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reports. It has gone down, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports , as the number of high school graduates has leveled off. Even among undergraduates alone, the figure is higher than 30 percent. million to 4.8 How student-ready are our colleges?”.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

universities and colleges during the 2014-2015 academic year, the most recent period for which figures are available, only 792 were Syrian, the IIE reports. One asks for more information about the psychological counseling offered, which covers stress, depression and homesickness. Another 1,727 came from Iraq, and 1,578 from Libya.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Being Tasered by a school resource officer can also traumatize a child psychologically. In 1997 only 10 percent of public schools had police officers; in 2014, 30 percent did. There is a dearth of research on the overall impact of police on school crime and culture, he added. It’s a natural instinct to want to protect children.

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