article thumbnail

Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is ‘fundamentally flawed’

The Hechinger Report

For example, in two studies of Indiana students with disabilities published in 2021 and 2023 , researchers found that the more time that students spent in an inclusive setting, the better they did. She cited four studies ( one , two , three , four ), published between 2009 and 2021, showing that students fared better with inclusion.

Education 145
article thumbnail

The Virtual Mystery Webtool: Open access online Hybridized Problem-based Learning

Teaching Anthropology

Psychology and Forensic Chemistry), and Institutions. Students login to see their VMs and collaborate asynchronously with their team and facilitator as they work through the clues and collaborate on the larger VM report (see Fukuzawa et al., Student evaluations of the Virtual Mystery Project have been overwhelmingly positive. Fukuzawa, S.,

article thumbnail

International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT

The Hechinger Report

These are typically low-stakes homework assignments where a professor might ask students to post their thoughts on a reading assignment in, say, psychology or biology. The scientists didnt actually read all 1,140,328 discussion-board submissions written by 16,791 students between the fall term of 2021 and the winter term of 2024.

article thumbnail

The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

According to a paper published in the February 2025 issue of the Journal of Education Psychology, the 565 children who received the Core Knowledge lessons did better on tests of the topics and words that were taught, compared with 626 children who had learned reading as usual and werent exposed to these topics. We are all waiting for answers.

Teaching 138
article thumbnail

Sherlock Holmes and Covert Thieves of Attention

The Effortful Educator

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27(2), 276. You can find me on Twitter , Bluesky , or feel free to contact me through my website. A scandal in Bohemia. Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. Forrin, N. McLean, D. Siklos-Whillans, J., … & MacLeod, C. Attention spreads between students in a learning environment.

article thumbnail

Decomposing decision-making: a cognitive dimension to teacher rehearsal

A Psychology Teacher Writes

However, it can be challenging to ensure that group provision includes a sufficient number of mechanisms that underpin effective professional development (Sims & Fletcher-Wood, 2021; EEF, 2021). EEF (2021). Contemporary educational psychology, 61, 101860. Sims & Fletcher-Wood (2021). References Coe, R.

article thumbnail

PROOF POINTS: What almost 150 studies say about how to motivate students

The Hechinger Report

The way that teachers and parents influence motivation is an indirect one, by satisfying three psychological needs, according to a theory that Bureau explained to me. In an earlier February 2021 study, Bureau and his colleagues found that internal motivation matters. The three needs are competency, belonging and autonomy.