ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Our collective responsibilities range from curating extensive collections, providing instructional services and supporting research activities, to ensuring the accessibility and relevance of our digital and physical resources for our students and faculty members. This dynamic is significantly magnified within the education workforce.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

Ludovic Slimak, a leading paleoanthropologist affiliated with the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, has devoted his career to exploring the enigmatic world of Neanderthals. Slimak asserts. "We One striking example is the discovery of bird feathers in Neanderthal sites in Italy.

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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. A great primer ahead of studying psychopathology.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new research review finds inconsistent benefits for students with disabilities who learn alongside general education peers. It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society. Overall, students didn’t benefit academically, psychologically or socially from the practice.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Nature Podcast: Produced by the prestigious journal Nature, this podcast discusses the latest scientific research. The Science of Happiness: This book explores scientific insights into happiness and well-being, backed by research in positive psychology. Science@NASA Need a weekly fix of NASA-related news and research?

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TeachThought

JUNE 10, 2024

So I did a little research and initially didn’t find much to ease my confusion. Edith Ackerman, a “ Swiss-born American psychologist who explored the interactions between developmental psychology, play, learning and design. He stresses the importance of tools, media, and context in human development.

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The Effortful Educator

AUGUST 5, 2024

It still feels surreal to see where reading research and writing about its implications in my classroom has taken me. I’ve written for the American Psychological Association several, Education Week, Edutopia, National Education Association, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many more. Department of Education.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This week the annual Scottish Learning Festival took place in Glasgow, and together with five fellow educators I gave a presentation on the value of psychology to younger learners. 1) The study of Psychology is a basic part of understanding reality. 2) Psychology is interesting and motivating. We can do better for our learners.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

One researcher at NWEA, an organization that produces standardized tests, says he has come up with a way to detect rapid guessing and has found that it is particularly prevalent on reading tests. . Related: Researchers can predict when a student’s mind is wandering. But Wise’s research points to student motivation as the cause.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. “As a human, the criticism doesn’t feel good,” Duckworth said. Choose as many as you like.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

Helping us do that is Megan Sumeracki, a professor of cognitive psychology at Rhode Island College. Her area of expertise is human learning and memory, and applying the science of learning in educational contexts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one of the most successful education interventions to come out of the Department of Education’s research and development program that issued $1.4 billion in grants between 2010 and 2016. The failure rate was 74 percent. National scale up.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Her words describe the transformative power of reading — a skill that, unlike spoken language, humans are not naturally hardwired to master. Reading requires building connections in the brain that wouldn’t exist without explicit instruction. Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs).

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

But a fascinating review of the scientific research on how to teach critical thinking concludes that teaching generic critical thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, might be a big waste of time. But research from the last 30 years shows that young children are far more capable in engaging in reasoning that we once thought.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

In recent years, cognitive scientists have done gobs of research on how making mistakes help us learn, much of it funded by the federal Institute for Education Science. Past research had shown that these signals relate to academic performance. Some findings make intuitive sense. Some are completely surprising. “He classrooms.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2024

That AI tool had pulled off some big wins, including beating humans on the Jeopardy quiz show in 2011. He says his team spent about five years trying, and along the way they helped build some small-scale attempts into learning products, such as a pilot chatbot assistant that was part of a Pearson online psychology courseware system in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

That finding motivated Brown to ask more questions about play and its role in healthy human development. In the years after the shooting, he and a team of researchers interviewed men who were incarcerated in the Texas Huntsville Prison for homicide. Doris Bergen, a professor at Miami University’s Department of Educational Psychology.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I’ve never liked the idea that as teachers it is our job to “manage” students, but it wasn’t until I was reading research about human motivation for my doctoral program that I understood why I was feeling such a knee-jerk reaction when I heard the phrase “classroom management.” Hofferber, N.,

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The Effortful Educator

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A large majority of the students I teach are novice learners when it comes to the curriculum of psychology. For the vast majority of human beings, the answer is a resounding no. These strategies have over a century of research demonstrating increased retention of material for all age levels and ability levels. Just pick it up.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., Codifying self-love and identifying ways to capture growth is key for student progress.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

Core parts of the mission also include advancing research on disability and developing and promoting curricular materials on disability. Her research and teaching interests include American politics, gender, caregiving, and disability politics and policy. Hirschmann is Geraldine R. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion. It’s been difficult for the research community to prove that all of this student data actually improves teaching and helps students learn more.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Albright is co-founder and director of research of Kognito, a company that develops online role-play simulations to train educators and healthcare professionals to have conversations with young people on mental health, substance use, suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ issues. territories. territories.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham. For example, the researchers were interested in how students were able to connect claims to evidence, prioritize which forms of justification to use as evidence and refute alternative claims.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2022

Researchers looked at 39 studies of play and included 17 in a meta-analysis that found when children ages three to eight engage in guided play, they can learn just as much in some domains of literacy and executive function as children who receive direct instruction from a teacher or adult.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Thanks to discoveries in the fields of organizational psychology and neuroscience, we can gain a better understanding of what human traits or behaviors are best suited for leadership, and why they are of benefit to the organizations and teams these individuals lead.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Her research examines the conditions for justice during internal armed conflict, human rights prosecutions, transitional justice in post-communist Eastern European states, gender equality in post-conflict settings, and justice efforts in democracies. Research interests include social movements, social justice and cultural genocide.

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ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

Some researchers are exploring one that might sound trivial but actually could be quite thorny: What should these computer-generated educational assistants look and sound like? He points to research that shows that some students learn better from male instructors, while others learn better from female ones.

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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. Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Attitude systems at the level of any world view (mineral, animal, vegetal, human, para-natural) 6.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Some might think that the height of his medical career was when he gave draftee Elvis Presley his physical and psychological examination, but for Len it was his service as an intern at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Their first child, Professor Benjamin Glick, was born during their research in the highlands.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient. Dyslexia is the most common reading disability. The studies came just as the U.S.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

Yes, it can be, according to two groups of researchers who have tested how programs aimed at fostering belonging have impacted students’ academic performances. Mentor is now part of the faculty at the university’s Teachers College, where one of her research areas is education equity.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. A new AI chatbot can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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