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MARCH 8, 2019

Psychology in the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to What Works came out around this time last year. Co-authored with Marc Smith and aimed at both new and experienced teachers, it’s a guide to how psychology research on areas such as memory, creativity and motivation can be applied to classroom practice.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report Much attention in the post-pandemic era has been on what students have lost – days of school, psychological health, knowledge and skills. We’ve seen partnering with the YMCA and with health groups for medical services and psychological evaluations.”

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JULY 30, 2021

It resulted in psychological distress for many. “We Their findings aligned with the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America study : Gen Z adults ages 18 to 23 reported significantly higher stress levels than other generations. Researchers plan to survey students again this fall.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

The average sixth grader knows more today in 2024 than he or she did in first grade in 2019. Sixth graders in 2024, on average, know far less than sixth graders did back in 2019. At the end of the 2023-24 school year, nearly as many kindergarteners were on grade level for phonics skills as kindergarteners in 2019.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But the research process is slow and methodical, and finally in 2019, there is more conclusive evidence that the whirring lobes of plastic are harmful to learning. A German study published in January 2019 found that both fidget spinners and doodling impaired memory. Photo: Meryl Schenker for The Hechinger Report. So 2017, right?

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The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores reveal a troubling trend: the average reading scores for both fourth graders and eighth graders were two points lower than in 2022 and five points lower than in 2019.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality. Last year’s stress led to record levels of teacher burnout and mental health challenges for students.

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MARCH 11, 2019

” Credé first published his analysis of all the grit studies he could find and laid out the problems in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2017. ” For these outcomes, he explained, other psychological attributes, such as self-control and conscientiousness, out-predict grit.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Social sciences, such as psychology, are also considered part of the liberal arts but not included in the humanities data here. “These humanities fields are down to unprecedented levels,” said Rob Townsend, director of humanities, arts and culture programs at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It’s worrisome.”.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

The researchers persuaded 81 parents of three-year olds to take cellphone videos of their children brushing their teeth every night for 16 days during 2019 and early 2020. She is now an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University. Cuteness abounded. Pets and siblings intruded. Kids cried. But this isn’t a causal study.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. And students clearly wanted help; use of campus counseling rose 23 percent from 2019 to 2020. I needed something to pour my grief into,” said DeJongh. “I

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NOVEMBER 5, 2023

A 2019 survey of teachers uncovered some of these gaps. 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.” It is time to know and do better. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A.

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MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

In a June 2019 report , Wise wrote that rapid guessing was higher for test questions that contain more reading or that are perceived as more taxing. It’s unlikely that a student would suddenly know a lot more the next day and that’s a sign that the first day’s guessing was more psychological than academic.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Yet another explanation is a psychological one. The isolation may have stunted psychological development and that ultimately affected motivation, study skills and the ability to delay gratification – all necessary to excel in math. These eighth graders were in sixth grade when the pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. For studies that noted gender, boys and girls equally benefited from working in pairs or groups regardless if they worked together or apart. The study, “ How effective is peer interaction in facilitating learning?

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JANUARY 18, 2021

The psychological literature is muddy with several studies finding no harm to children’s mental health. For example, a 2019 study found that social media use doesn’t harm adolescent well-being. “Parents might turn to technologies or screens to manage their children’s outbursts,” he said.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

GDP from 1990 to 2019 would have been $22.9 Alexandra Filindra is an associate professor of political science and psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago and a Public Voices Fellow through The OpEd Project. A recent Brookings report estimated that if the racial gap in education and employment had been eliminated, the U.S.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. During my 2019 run for Congress, my statistical expertise proved invaluable in analyzing trends, guiding campaign messaging and optimizing resource allocation.

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MARCH 16, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Dahl describes himself as a developmental scientist, practicing in a field that combines many subjects such as neuroscience, psychology and medicine. Early Childhood. He says the adolescent learning spurt is second only to the rapid brain development of the first five years of early childhood.

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APRIL 11, 2022

To address this, the university staged an experiment in 2019 involving 1,800 high school students. What’s changed between then and the 2019 experiment, according to Dynarski, is that low-income families are becoming more aware that there is a lot of financial aid available and that they won’t have to pay the full sticker price.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our caveman ancestors but that now lead people to make biased decisions or incorrect assumptions.

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MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. America’s Workforce Dilemma During the 2019-2020 academic year, U.S. postsecondary institutions conferred about 5.1

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Teenagers said that the pressure to get good grades was their biggest cause of stress , a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found. “A Disabatino, now a UCSC junior double-majoring in psychology and anthropology and also the first in her low-income family to go to college, said: “I kind of felt like a deer in the headlights.”.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The research was published in the nonprofit’s 2019 report “If You Listen, We Will Stay: Why Teachers of Color Leave and How We can Disrupt the Turnover.” Dixon, an assistant professor of developmental psychology at Hampton University, said retention efforts like the one in Mississippi ultimately need buy-in from administrators too.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Wanting students to be able to ‘analyse, synthesise and evaluate’ information sounds like a reasonable goal,” writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. But it is entirely applicable to the American context.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. And the Covid-19 pandemic has abruptly thrown the ratio even more off balance.

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APRIL 26, 2020

Sure, classes convey information about molecular biology or World War II, macroeconomics or social psychology, but the lessons are amplified and become resonant as students talk about them in the cafeteria, before sports events, in the library or in the dormitory lounge.

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JULY 5, 2022

In the fall of 2019, over 18 million students were enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the U.S. Kathryn Boucher is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Indianapolis. By this spring, the number had declined by almost 1.4 million students, a drop of 9.4

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MAY 11, 2021

The 2019 incident reminded me of what poet Maya Angelou once said: “When you know better, do better.”. The disparities begin in preschool ; they can have a negative effect on students mentally, psychologically and even physically, and can lead to poor academic performance. Maya Angelou once said: “When you know better, do better.”

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

A 2019 American Council on Education survey found that student mental health had become a higher priority over the previous three years for 80 percent of college presidents. Likewise, student mental health and wellness had become a significant concern on college campuses long before the pandemic.

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MAY 17, 2023

As schools emerged from Covid-19, staff support jobs did not return to what they had been in 2019. The educational environment got more difficult physically, emotionally, mentally and psychologically,” said Mark Klaisner, the president of the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Heather Hunter, a psychology major at Wichita State University who has a part-time job in a foster-care agency, said only four high school students in foster care showed up for a workshop to help them fill out that federal form required to qualify for financial aid. We have to fight three times as hard now.”. College enrollments have fallen.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Psychological disorders often show up during the teenage years. A recent study of the psychological consequences of Covid-19 on teenagers in China suggests that both depression and anxiety could be soaring, particularly among girls, high-school seniors and low-income students. Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images. Geography mattered too.

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MARCH 13, 2019

On Friday, January 18, 2019, counselors, teachers and others held a rally during a strike in Los Angeles. Photo by E. Tammy Kim) E. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. The post OPINION: Shocked by the college admissions scandal? School counselors aren’t appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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MAY 8, 2023

million just since 2019, according to the clearinghouse. Berea College in Kentucky has 18 percent fewer male students now than in 2019, and the college has started focusing on attracting Appalachian men — and keeping them there. If I can’t read or write at college level, I can’t show that.” Undergraduate enrollment is down by 1.11

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

The conversation that morning in December 2019 followed the lead of the seven or eight most vocal students. They also studied the psychology of trauma, wrote their own trauma narratives and had the opportunity to meet Fidel. This story also appeared in NBC News. Amy Stuart Wells, professor at Teachers College.

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