The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Take AP Psychology. But rather than encouraging us to engage with psychology’s intellectual premises, the class requires us to memorize roughly 400 terms. Thus, it is no surprise that GPT-4 clocks high scores on the bar exam, SAT and multiple AP exams, including a 5 (the highest possible score) on AP Psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Social sciences, such as psychology, are also considered part of the liberal arts but not included in the humanities data here. They were down 10 percent in the spring of 2021 compared to 2020. It’s worrisome.”. Pure sciences like physics and chemistry are included in the liberal arts and sciences but not the humanities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

She is now an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University. The study, “ Daily fluctuations in young children’s persistence ,” was published online December 2021 in the journal Child Development. But this isn’t a causal study. It’s just a correlation.”. My hypothesis is that it’s both,” said Leonard.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Clinical interventions are not the only way — and often not the most appropriate or effective way — to support young people who may be temporarily struggling with feelings that do not meet the full psychological definition of mental illness. She has maintained a private clinical psychology and consulting practice for more than three decades.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

LVP partnered with Shmoop to pilot the tool with school districts that were managing both virtual and in-person learning during spring 2021. Contemporary Educational Psychology , 54, 125-138. Washington, DC: National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, The Aspen Institute. Digital Promise. Giovanelli, A.,

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2022

In December 2021, the U.S. A few months later, the chief science officer at the American Psychological Association testified before a Senate committee that America’s youth mental health system was fundamentally flawed. Youth mental health is at a crisis point. Surgeon General issued an advisory on youth mental health.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

The debate reignited among university professors during the pandemic with the 2021 online publication of a commentary in the journal Educational Psychology Review. It’s also known as exploration, discovery learning or simply “scientific practices.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” wrote Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, one of the assessment companies. 15, 2024, documented widespread psychological distress among teenage girls and preteen boys since the pandemic. One report documented that U.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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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) March 2, 2021. I did not, for those years, experience the psychological warfare that I often see played on African American people in this country, and others around the world. What are the most important areas of focus for the future of education?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Direct evidence of white resistance to racial equity in education can be seen in a survey experiment my co-authors and I conducted in 2021 that closely replicated findings from earlier periods. A key obstacle to racial equality in education continues to be white resistance. This will help America’s quest to fulfill the promise of Brown.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

Herman’s middle school study was first posted online in 2020 by the Journal of Educational Psychology and is slated for publication later in 2021. “Instead, we need to be setting clear expectations of what behaviors we do want to be seeing.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Morgan’s study, “ Risk and Protective Factors for Frequent Electronic Device Use of Online Technologies ,” was published online January 2021 in the journal Child Development. The psychological literature is muddy with several studies finding no harm to children’s mental health. The Penn State researchers analyzed an existing U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

Overall, students didn’t benefit academically, psychologically or socially from the practice. This latest Campbell Collaboration study was commissioned to see if newer research, published from 2000 to September 2021, would move the dial. Some children thrived while others did very badly in regular classrooms. It did not.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers,” said Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College who researches the mental health impacts of natural disasters on children. In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers” Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College. Morgan was nervous.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Not surprisingly, students who receive Ds, Fs or Ws graduate at lower rates than their peers, according to a 2021 analysis of data from eight colleges by the Association of Public Land Grant Universities. Each college selected courses with high DFW rates, including classes in math, chemistry, biology, psychology and English.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

Failing grades have jumped for middle and high school students nationwide: The state of New Mexico , for example, and the city of Houston, Texas, had more than 40 percent of students fail at least one class from spring 2020 to spring 2021. Kathryn Boucher is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Indianapolis.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

In 2021 and 2022, she was Marshall’s student body president, and she also served as the chair of West Virginia’s student advisory council. “There is a stigma about that topic, and I think it’s getting better, but sometimes it’s nerve-wracking if you’ve never been to the counseling center.” Alyssa Parks. Photo courtesy of WVHEPC.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

As lead researcher at Breakthrough Collaborative , a national nonprofit building supportive out-of-school-time learning communities to improve educational equity, I recently had the opportunity to closely study an after-school math tutoring program our organization piloted during the 2021-22 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

26, 2024, in the peer-reviewed journal Developmental Psychology, now provides stronger causal evidence that building background knowledge can translate into higher reading achievement for low-income children. In 2021, students were still not attending school in person. A new study, published online on Feb.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

He briefly considered a career in law, but settled on psychology after working in an inpatient clinic for children and adolescents after college. He’s worked in several settings since starting his program in clinical and school psychology in 2020, and found interest in them all. But it kept pulling me back.”

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ED Surge

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. And as of 2021 , more than half of the U.S. To further complicate matters, the U.S. birth rate has been declining since the 1970s.

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

EdSurge connected with educators who decided to leave the classroom this year and with researchers focused on child psychology and student achievement to better understand how turnover impacts teachers and students—and why the retention crisis remains, despite efforts to return to normalcy. According to the 2021 State of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2023

The school didn’t accept her classes in psychology — her major — because they weren’t considered a match. A 2021 law will put all eligible students on that track unless they opt out, and create a set of general education classes that must be accepted at all state universities. Two Virginia colleges have gone further.

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ED Surge

MAY 4, 2023

She took classes on campus and planned to major in psychology, but she didn’t really know what she wanted to do with her life. In summer 2021, while Osgood was still breastfeeding that baby, the time came for an experience she had long looked forward to: traveling to campus to learn in ASU’s laboratories. She left the military.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

These behaviors we teachers saw at school are only the visible tips of the icebergs of a student’s unique experience—the cultural, emotional, and psychological matter that makes a person. In essence, each student who entered my classroom in the fall of 2021 was not the same one who left in March of 2020.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Fiske had been previously employed by an independent school in California, while in a doctoral program for education psychology, researching how people learn, she says. McCoy published a survey of classical learning schools in 2021 for Manhattan Institute, which painted it as an “attractive option for parents.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

That same year, the veracity of the Google effect was debated at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, where scholars described repeated failures. In a paper published in 2021 , University of California Santa Cruz researchers began by adding a confirmation step. In “ Answer First or Google First?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Tuition and fees rose less than 1 percent from September 2019 to July 2021, a period during which inflation was more than 7 percent. A lot of it has to do with psychology,” said Stuebner. There’s this perverse belief that high price equals higher quality, and it really does surprise me how strong that psychology is,” Stuebner said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

I learned about Binet, and his ideas about how IQ tests should — and should not — be used in elementary schools while reporting a piece last month for The Hechinger Report and Slate on the debate over cognitive testing in school placement and psychology. In that sense, Binet was an early forerunner in the field of school psychology.

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The Effortful Educator

MAY 2, 2024

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied , 27 (2), 276. Thanks : ) Forrin, N. McLean, D. Siklos-Whillans, J., … & MacLeod, C. Attention spreads between students in a learning environment. Feature image by Shubham Sharan on Unsplash The post Attention Contagion appeared first on The Effortful Educator.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

We can hold older students accountable to know the rules of behavior in their schools,” said Maurice Elias, a professor of psychology who researches social emotional learning at Rutgers University. “We 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

MAY 8, 2023

While 43 percent of Black male students dropped out between the fall of 2021 and the spring of 2022, President David Sanders said, 93 percent of the few dozen men in the mentoring program stuck around. In response, they started a new mentoring program that pairs an instructor or other employee with two Black male students. This has helped.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

She’s going for a degree that will let her transfer to the University of Oregon to major in psychology; she hopes to eventually work as a school counselor or in some other job supporting kids. Kayla LeMaster, 41, is on her second try at a two-year degree. She had to drop out in 2012 after getting injured in a house fire.

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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. There is also a geographic component to their distribution, research suggests. Credit : MissLunaRose12 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Does where you live have any bearing on the kind of personality you have?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She was sitting in front of a desktop Dell in a converted brownstone in New York City, clicking through lessons in an online psychology class about stress, when she heard the word “resilience” for the first time. It resonated. Lynch had left school just before Christmas in 2011, when she was 22, in the middle of a major depressive episode.

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