The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Over a century of research shows evidence of improved student performance when retrieval practice (also called the testing effect) is used as a method of learning and assessment in the classroom. (1) Check out this link to see some of my articles and my book that feature this topic. Those topics are obviously related.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Self-Determination Theory identifies three basic psychological needs that impact motivation–competence, relatedness, and autonomy (Deci & Ryan, 2000). Choice has been shown to improve retention, transfer performance, and motivation (Schneider, Nebel, Beege & Rey, 2018). Would You Rather?

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Those of you familiar with educational psychology will recognize this as the age-old problem of transfer of training. Research studies have shown that comprehending an abstraction does not certify that the individual will be able to apply it correctly. Here we find very little relevant research.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 10, 2021

In today’s New York Times article, Does Instagram harm girls? Dr. Laurence Steinberg, Professor of Psychology at Temple University, said: . We should be just as skeptical about correlational research that links social media use to reports of positive well-being as we are about research that reaches the opposite conclusion.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 4, 2025

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Elsa Kugelberg,University of Oxford, “Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere.”

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Jonathan Firth

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

What should you read to prime yourself for further study in Psychology? I’m often asked by new or prospective Psychology students (or their parents) if I can recommend some interest-based reading to extend their understanding or prepare for a degree. Image via Pixabay. Apparently so. A great primer ahead of studying psychopathology.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

My own school psychology textbooks, including books for the Higher and GCSE courses. There are also a wide range of resources for A-Level Psychology. I’ve been teaching Psychology at secondary school level for almost two decades. This article discusses routes into teaching the subject.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. I reached out to the authors of these articles and other scholars from that time to ask just that. What happened?

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The Effortful Educator

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A 2008 research article ( 1 ) looked at eight studies examining just this and attempted to answer the question following question: which seating arrangement showed the most promise for increasing on task behaviors while decreasing disruptive behaviors? I say we turn to evidence of what seems to work better for learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

But overall, EdSurge articles that highlighted educators experiences and called for more connection gripped readers all year. As a Principal, I Thought I Promoted Psychological Safety. And of course, readers were eager for coverage on dealing with the ways artificial intelligence is changing the dynamics of their classrooms.

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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. But the authors of the 2021 article said the council’s references for this policy change were “theoretical ideas packaged in conceptual articles rather than empirical evidence.”

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Geography Education

APRIL 17, 2024

There’s new excitement brewing in the navigation research world, though. Though there’s still much to learn, the research suggests that to some extent, navigation skills are shaped by upbringing. SOURCE: Knowable Magazine How do we know where we are, and why can some people find their way in the world, better than others?

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Jack Wippell, covers the new article by Gregory Eady and Anne Rasmussen, “Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity.”

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Research shows that students who engage in structured science learning develop stronger vocabulary, analytical thinking, and reading comprehension. A significant body of research confirms that structured exposure to scientific content enhances literacy.

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Jonathan Firth

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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. As researchers in learning and text comprehension, our recent work has focused on the differences between reading print and digital media. In our academic lives, we have books and articles that we regularly return to.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

While the news articles are alarming, it is worth noting that much of the data they cite comes from self-reporting by students. Researchers have hypothesized that at least some of these self-reported crises may be due to an increased awareness and normalization of mental health conditions.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ve rounded up four resources that provide best practices for improving school culture, including how psychological safety is crucial for educators and strategies for valuing and supporting teachers. Find them on our blog: What Positive Psychology Has to Do with Supporting Teacher Well-Being Promoting Teacher Mental Health?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In the years after the shooting, he and a team of researchers interviewed men who were incarcerated in the Texas Huntsville Prison for homicide. The parallelism between their play deficiencies, and the objective problems in forming trusting social bonds with others seems very significant,” concluded Brown in a 2018 article.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 11, 2019

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Leer en español. Such gaps, however, are not the result of differences in intellectual ability.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Dahl pointed to research that found that these circuitry brain maps for younger children, ages 8 to 10, are fairly similar. Early Childhood.

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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. Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S.

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All Things Pedagogical

JUNE 22, 2024

And the difference between the folk who can or choose to only see positive, and those who see and experience those barriers to connecting, engaging, or even sharing in spaces like conferences or classrooms or meetings, is psychological safety. We like to use phrases like "this is a safe space" when we in fact can never guarantee this.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2017

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. As a researcher of neuroscience and a pianist myself, I understand that the mastering of this skill not only takes practice, but also requires complex coordination of many different brain regions. Read the original article.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Harvard GSE researcher Heather Hill found that, indeed, creating welcoming environments for students must first start at the teacher level. They discussed 2 research-backed approaches and interventions for teachers that have positive impacts on students’ sense of safety and happiness in a classroom environment.

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ED Surge

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. What does the research say can be done about all the misinformation online?

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 5, 2017

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. . Research suggests that 175 million young people, largely from poor countries and regions, lack basic literacy skills. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Researchers have devoted decades to studying how to study. The research literature is frankly overwhelming. Luckily for all of us, the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest published a review article a few years ago that remains the most comprehensive guide out there. At least not if that’s all you do.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

UDL is a research-based framework that focuses on providing students with multiple means for engagement, representation, action, and expression. Students can read articles, watch videos, and listen to podcasts to learn. Technology is good at transferring information. However, this approach can be counterproductive.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

The researchers didn’t actually study how people use Google or any internet search engine. The study made a huge splash in the journal Science , followed by popular articles about the “Google effect.” Other researchers couldn’t replicate the Google effect when they repeated similar memory experiments.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

In this article, Suthan Krishnarajan advances the debate by showing how citizens change their views on what actions are regarded as democratic and undemocratic to dovetail with their political beliefs.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. The first explicit elaboration of the concept occurred in Redfleld’s article “The Primitive World View” (1952). Mendelson 1956): 1. Natural (biology, chemistry, physics) 3.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

But such programs also carry risks, according to the study, which calls for further research to be conducted to assess how well peer-support efforts actually work and to determine best practices for running them. After all, the report notes, when students experience distress, they usually talk about it first with each other.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2017

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. By age six, girls are less likely than boys to view their own gender as brilliant and express interest in activities described as for “really, really smart” children, according to new research published in Science.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. I am an associate professor of psychology at Michigan State University. So, I decided to use my research expertise in memory and attention to investigate: How do students use their laptop in class? Read the original article.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

Concerns about how much time toddlers and other little learners – dubbed The Touch-Screen Generation in a recent Atlantic article –should engage with screens is becoming more of an obsession in a high tech world. She’s also come up with guidelines based on what a scant – but growing – body of research is finding.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Read the original article. Past research on second language aptitude has focused on how people perceive sounds in a particular language and on more general cognitive processes such as memory and learning abilities. This could be an exciting future research direction.

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