The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. states have recognized that their traditional approaches, including placement policies and limited math course options, often advantage an elite few while overlooking the needs of the broader student population.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

Research should be used to inform as well as influence the actions we take to implement sustainable change at scale. The consensus of this research is that the space itself has physical, social, and psychological effects. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1362–1370. Godwin, K., & & Seltman, H. Scott-Webber, L.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Some call it explicit or traditional instruction. The debate reignited among university professors during the pandemic with the 2021 online publication of a commentary in the journal Educational Psychology Review. Educators have long debated the best way to teach, especially the subjects of science and math.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Research on the physical, psychological and academic benefits of outdoor learning for kids is well-established, and is now informing the development of climate education. What’s also becoming well-known is the essential role of traditional and Indigenous ecological knowledge in the effort to cope with the climate crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In past years, these programs met societal and student needs through instruction on culturally responsive teaching, trauma-informed education, conscious leadership and many other progressive approaches. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

Another confounding factor is that students who saw the talk meter were also given extra information sessions and worksheets about the benefits of talking more. So we can’t tell from this experiment if the talk meter made the difference or if the information on the value of talking aloud would have been enough to get them to talk more.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history. We discussed how they felt about Rivera’s racist statements and how Rivera’s opinions have informed White-centered histories.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Limit Homework or Make it Optional Imagine applying for a job, and the hiring manager informs you that in addition to a full workday in the office, you’ll be assigned three more hours of work every night. Counseling departments can inform colleges that their school is a test objector so admission teams won’t penalize students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. 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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The Hechinger Report

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. Nikita Nerkar, a peer wellness coach and senior from Phoenix majoring in psychology, said students often “are looking to have a space to talk things through.”.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 3, 2024

We argue that civilians’ indirect exposure to war fatalities can trigger psychological processes that increase identification with their nation and ultimately strengthen support for nationalist parties. To measure localized war exposure, we machine-coded information on 7.5 million German soldiers who were wounded or died in WW1.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

MARCH 10, 2023

There have been significant shifts in thinking in recent years towards a more feedback driven model rather than most teachers’ traditional conceptions of what marking looks like. I’m coming at this from a Psychology perspective, and I’m thinking mostly about extended responses or essays.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Without fully informing his mother, the school district pulled him out of the regular education program and assigned him to classes focused on life skills. Even as California enacted the ban, IQ tests became central across the country to the relatively young and rapidly expanding field of school psychology.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

In contrast, prior psychological research on learning was often conducted in a lab with artificial tasks and then applied to more realistic educational activities and settings. These terms represent distinct research traditions and inform our understanding in different and complementary ways.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

Subsequent research and statements from math experts questioned the relevance and efficacy of traditional pathways to calculus for all students. After all, this is what most colleges do: Students interested in science and engineering take the traditional algebra-to-calculus path.

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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. Understanding what makes a story “newsworthy” is one area social scientists can quickly learn and apply to inform their foray into journalism.

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Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 27, 2020

We continue our exploration of the field of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology, the American Psychological Association’s Division 14. I-O Psychology is the study of behavior in the workplace. in I-O Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. Louis Tay received his Ph.D.

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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. In its current connotation, worldview is seen as a combination of the following information which social scientists can gather from the field (E. Mendelson 1956): 1.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Photo: Amadou Diallo, for The Hechinger Report. REDMOND, Wash. —

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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. Microschooling was an experiment whose insights she meant to transpose into public schools. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Eventually she declared a major in psychology and a minor in art. There’s no reliable source of information about how many students arrive at college without a major; one national survey of freshmen found that about 9 percent were undecided. Photo: Saquan Stimpson for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2023

It seems like parents are receiving these messages about the power of play, but perhaps they’re lacking the nuance and research-backed information to understand what type of play is most beneficial for learning. We did analyze the data according to demographic information, and we did find some interesting differences.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. When we would try to inform the teacher, we would get called names.”. Covid-19 upended that.

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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. This concept of the “ Cultural Iceberg ” was introduced in 1976 by Edward T. We chose to exclude and isolate, rather than to repair and restore.

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Jonathan Firth

JUNE 7, 2019

However, from the late 1960s onwards, researchers such as Gordon Bower and Allan Paivio began to promote its use as a study strategy, and explore the psychology behind it. Educational Psychology Review, 3 (3), 149-210. Psychological Review, 76 (3), 241. A study by Wammes et al. Dual coding theory and education. Maguire, E.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2020

As a student in my 30s with over a decade of professional experience, I am not a “traditional” student. If we have applied for finanial aid, colleges already have our data — and so they should be able to inform us whether we are likely to be eligible for these programs. Students need more than just a reminder that schools care.

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Digital Promise

MAY 8, 2019

Cognitive scientists have discovered a great deal of information about the mind, brain, memory, and learning. When we want to learn something well, studying the information or practicing the task just once is almost always inadequate. Reviewing the information or practicing at the right time is critical for durable learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has compounded long-standing mental health struggles, exposing more students to the trauma of personal and familial illness, financial hardship, displacement and psychological harm. Related: Anxiety, depression among students have become central issues. The pandemic, of course, is now triggering additional changes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

That’s why I am pursuing a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. Because of our histories of loss of language, distance from traditional practices and distrust of outside communities, we may feel alienated in academic settings.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

George’s to implement research-informed practices. One theory that has greatly informed their work is self-determination theory , which identifies three components that can help students develop intrinsic motivation: autonomy in learning, relatedness, and competence (4,6). Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Deci, E.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

as a female child of immigrants from Taiwan, this kind of behavior is practically sacrilegious; certainly scandalous and wildly antithetical to my traditional upbringing. Accurate information directly impacts who gets what resources — aren’t you an educator and literal expert in communication and research? Growing up in the U.S.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

While parts of the education system have incorporated tailored methods to keep students engaged, mathematics is often still taught in traditional, non-differentiated ways. Gotto Chair in Child Development and professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. and Antonio M.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The new PhD (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Many doctoral students will not go on to tenure-track professorships, so why should they devote their grad school years to producing a traditional dissertation mainly of value inside academe? Is there a way to teach students who don’t naturally think aloud in their heads to do this?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

But it wasn’t that wall of degrees that most strongly informed her passion for teaching: It was the support she received growing up as a Black child taught by Black educators in her Mississippi hometown, and at her alma mater, a historically Black college. And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. On a recent day, Wallace, now 17, sat quietly reading Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and looking up information about the poem on a computer. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report.

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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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