Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

Online content moderators, reviewing harmful materials, risk psychological trauma. In 2015, three-quarters of the junior recruits that were assessed had a reading age of 11 or below. Students are told about the career benefits of joining the military, but not so much about the physical, psychological, and moral risks of the profession.

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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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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

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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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 23, 2024

In 2015, Erica Kenney, an associate professor of public health nutrition at Harvard University, helped lead a team that analyzed data from a representative sample of children from across the nation. She plans to study psychology. “I This spring, Stephanie went back to school to attend her graduation ceremony and receive her diploma.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

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. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S. Victoria was in my U.S. History class.

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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

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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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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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

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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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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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

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

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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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

2015; Zoll, Feinberg, & Saylor, 2023). Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 92(2), 140-160. This is backed up both by science of reading research and by neurobiological research (Hong et al., 2018; Marks et al., 2019; McBride-Chang, et al., 2005; Romeo, et al., 2018; Rueckla et al., Rueckla, J. Paz-Alonso, P. Molfese, P.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015. But on many campuses, learning a second language is treated simply as a box to check.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

In New Orleans, Crocker is at the vanguard of a collaborative of five schools launched in 2015 by the city’s health department. It simply didn’t work for about a third of suspended students, said Amanda Aiken, a College Prep administrator who was Crocker’s principal when the school began to implement a trauma-informed model in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2020

Seventy-five percent of the class of 2019 stayed in the state , compared to 72 percent of the class of 2015, the Idaho Board of Education says. It also appears to be keeping more college-going high school graduates in Idaho. Related: Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future.

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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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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

MAY 23, 2020

A year and a half after the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history, students are coping with the psychological consequences of living through a megadisaster that sent them running for their lives. In California, seven of the ten most destructive fires on record have occurred since 2015. It was a 180 turn.”.

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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

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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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2023

Ben Castleman, associate professor of public policy and education at the University of Virginia, sees direct admission as a default shift, too, but also in a psychological sense. Now, high school graduates in New York will have to actively turn down pursuing college.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

We didn’t mention the first edition of Jen’s very popular book, The Reading Strategies Book , which was originally published in 2015. There’s human development and linguistics and neuroscience and psychology and special education and speech language pathology. I could go on and on.”

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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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