Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

When humans feel stressed or disconnected, our brains shift away from the higher-order thinking needed for learning and into survival mode (Arnsten, 2015). For instance, a study by Han (2015) compared young adults raised in East Asian versus Western cultures. New York, NY: Psychology Press. Gotlieb, R. link] Han, S.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The challenge, then, for PD is to use these levers to secure engagement (note: this is not about some rather sinister form of psychological manipulation to ‘trick’ people into engaging or getting buy-in; it’s about finding ways to explicitly show that people’s perceived individual needs are actually in alignment with whole-school goals).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Psychology professor Daniel Willingham and middle school teacher Paul Bruno, working with the organization Deans for Impact, summarized these concepts in a concise 2015 report, “ The Science of Learning.” The 2014 bestseller “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning,” by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Susan Dynarski, an economist who helped design and conduct the experiment at the University of Michigan and is now a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, said the study demonstrates the psychological power of “certainty.” People are more willing to try something when they know the final cost ahead of time.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

He is a behavioral economist who uses economic theory and empirics to study topics in the intersection of economics, psychology, political science, sociology and anthropology. Born in Mexico City, he received a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard in 2015, and a BA in economics and political science from ITAM in 2007.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In 2015, a mere 25 percent of high school seniors were proficient in the subject, according to the National Center for Education Statistics , which produces the most reliable data on academic competency. The school’s overall average Algebra Regents exam score went from 60 in 2015 to 67 last year. American students are bombing math.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

In her first semester of college, she asked her psychology professor if she could assist in the professor’s research. It’s also probably tied to depth of processing,” says Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a professor of education, psychology and neuroscience at the University of Southern California. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

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. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(4), 559. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 246–260. Citations. Yeager, D.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

At the same time, the new federal education law passed in 2015 has removed some of No Child Left Behind’s teeth. Daniel Willingham, psychology professor at the University of Virginia. “We Common Core still stands in most states, but many have tweaked the standards and changed the name to something less politically charged.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. The researcher, Jessica Schleider, currently a psychology fellow at Yale Medical School, adapted Dweck’s online program into two half-hour mindset lessons, one aimed at depression and the other at anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

million students enrolled in community colleges in 2015-16, about 903,000 were 40 or older, according to Martha Parham, senior vice president of public relations for the American Association of Community Colleges. But she’s wondering about others like her: What steps are people in their 40s, 50s and 60s taking to retrain themselves?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2019

For example, based on a 2015 longitudinal follow-up study of 753 kindergarteners for 13 to 19 years, Pennsylvania State’s Damon Jones and his colleagues found that participants’ social-emotional skills in kindergarten were associated with their employment status, criminal activity, substance use and mental health when they grew into young adults.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

When Victoria Sisk was an undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University in 2015, she watched Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck deliver an online TED Talk about the power of having a “growth mindset,” a theory Dweck developed. “This is a delicate psychological process,” she said. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

The quality of a teacher’s relationship with their students has the most significant impact on their emotional engagement at work (Hagenauer, Hascher & Volet, 2015; Tucker 2020). When student behaviors distract from the learning or jeopardize the safe psychological space in the classroom, it is emotionally draining for educators.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

. — 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. North Star added AP Biology in 2011, AP Calculus BC in 2013, AP Computer Science in 2014, AP Chemistry in 2015, and AP Physics last year.

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The Hechinger Report

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. From 2003 to 2015, according to GSU , its graduation rate (finishing a bachelor’s degree within six years of starting) for African-American students rose from 29 to 57 percent.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Psychology students studying behavior change helped the campus dining hall adopt a practice of offering half, full and double portions to cut down on food waste. Physics students designed solar thermal boxes to boost renewable biogas production on an organic farm owned by the college.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

After racially charged demonstrations at the University of Missouri in 2015, students and professors there and at Yale, Claremont McKenna and other colleges demanded administrators improve diversity. At Yale, which promised in 2015 to invest $50 million to propel the diversification of its faculty, 3.5 At Brigham Young University?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

In Illinois, where Johnsburg Elementary School is located, schools are allowed to suspend young students, but legislators passed a law in 2015 that encourages using suspension as a last resort. At least 17 states and D.C. Students in the early grades are also still trying to figure out how to function in a school environment. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

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. Another 2015 study found that non-monetary rewards were useful in getting young kids to attend an after-school tutoring program.

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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. Benefits that were first established in psychology labs have been shown to apply to real world learning situations such as a middle school science classroom (e.g. Educational Psychology Review, 27 (2), 317-326.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. . “I hope that our findings spur institutions to do some reflection on whether there is more they could do to help all students succeed,” she said. Related: Federal data shows 3.9

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since 2015, Kelly Tudor, in Texas, has run a Facebook group for Indigenous home-school families. She became fascinated with the idea while studying for her degrees in childhood education, psychology and math education. In the past year and a half, that number has ballooned; there are now over 1,000 parents in the group. The Siddiquis.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

Bruhn said 86 percent of the first-generation students his office helped during the last four years have graduated or are still enrolled — a fact he attributes, at least in part, to helping students meet not just their academic, but also their psychological, emotional and financial needs. It’s not just academics.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Department of Education data from 2015, since the 2008-2009 school year there’s been a 30 percent drop in enrollment nationwide: 75 percent of enrollees in traditional programs are white, 11 percent Hispanic, and 9 percent black. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! But rural districts aren’t the only problem.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

According to a 2006 report by the American Psychological Association, “mentored individuals often earn higher performance evaluations, higher salaries, and faster career progress than non-mentored individuals.” And not having a mentor can slow career progression.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Experiments by Carol Dweck in 2003, then a professor of psychology at Columbia University, suggest that students who are driven to learn for its own sake or for personal growth tend to stick to their studies longer than their highly competitive peers. Individuals who value learning seem to be more resilient, persisting despite failures.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. while she puzzled over psychology homework in the one hour she had to spare. When the semester ended in late 2015, Williams withdrew from Delgado. Marcovitz couldn’t sit up with her at 3 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Alfred “Red” Joseph, a senior history and philosophy major, and Lyndsi Burcham, a junior psychology major, stand outside Irvine Auditorium before the opening ceremony of the fourth annual 1vyG Conference at Penn, holding the SWAG given to attendees bearing theme “Focusing on the Future.”

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Jonathan Firth

APRIL 15, 2018

The question essentially asked what spacing and interleaving might look like in practice when teaching science (I have written about these two concepts in much more detail and in ways that apply to multiple teaching subjects in my book with Marc Smith, Psychology in the Classroom ). This has been best demonstrated for maths (e.g.

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ED Surge

MAY 12, 2022

Her workload—and the mental, psychological and financial burden they carried—had become untenable. But since 2015, Gray has been juggling multiple jobs at once. That she arrived at this point was not altogether surprising to Murphy, or to any of the people who know her best.

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. PLOS ONE , 2015) Strange Maps #1117 For more on geopsychology, see Tobias Ebert et al., There is also a geographic component to their distribution, research suggests. Science says yes, and these maps show how.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

Being a first-generation student, asking for help isn’t easy,” said Camacho, who is studying psychology. Having moved to the United States from the Dominican Republic when she was 11, Camacho can identify with many of the struggles her advisees face.*. When I started college, I was too afraid to ask anything.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Aaliyah Williams, a junior at The Charter School of San Diego, takes notes while watching an online video for her AP Psychology class. Related: Students sat in cubicles using computers. It wasn’t popular.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Fannie Lou Hamer is a small public high school that utilizes several progressive educational philosophies; the school’s innovations have led to it being named a “Gold” School of Opportunity by the National Education Policy Center in 2015 and a “model school” by the Center for Reform of School Systems in 2016.

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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. Psychology of Education Review, 42 (2), 15-22. Memory seems to be fundamentally counterintuitive, and there are many other myths and misconceptions out there.

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