Edthena

AUGUST 31, 2022

Positive psychology. Check out the conversation above, or continue reading for highlights including what positive psychology has to do with supporting teacher well-being. Check out the conversation above, or continue reading for highlights including what positive psychology has to do with supporting teacher well-being.

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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. The criticisms range widely, from statistical and methodological errors to bad survey questions.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

How about resuming with fairness as well, realigning pre-K to ease racial disparities in early learning? New York City’s expansive pre-K network ­— universal and free ­— is not immune to organized inequality. Average pre-K quality overall, after climbing initially, has remained at a plateau in the past two years.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. And the growth is steep — up 10 percent compared to last year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. We are trying to reach every high schooler in some way,” McElroy says.

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Research has found that a focus on social-emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom helps promote these relationships, and builds well-being and academic success. There is a ton of research, but very few tools that enable [personalized learning] to come to life. Contemporary Educational Psychology , 54, 125-138. Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. Research shows that fostering SEL improves students’ academic achievement by an average of 11 percentile points. Frustrated. Overwhelmed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The research evidence for education technology continues to be weak. Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my weekly stories about education data and research. Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends. Research scholars to air problems with using ‘grit’ at school.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Intriguing research shows that popular approaches to motivate students using rewards such as money, gold stars, or points (called “extrinsic motivators”) may in fact lead them to lose interest in learning (1). For several years, the pair has worked as part of a research partnership that supports St. Relatedness.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2012, the panel issued a joint statement asserting that calculus should not be the “ultimate goal of the K-12 mathematics curriculum.” Subsequent research and statements from math experts questioned the relevance and efficacy of traditional pathways to calculus for all students. Not a ringing endorsement.

High School 113

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea estimated she has worked at least 10 to 12 jobs since graduating from college six years ago. According to a 2006 report by the American Psychological Association, “mentored individuals often earn higher performance evaluations, higher salaries, and faster career progress than non-mentored individuals.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

As a professor of psychology at Cornell University, Sternberg has long studied standardized tests, and concluded they don’t provide much useful information on whether students are learning to think critically and creatively, enabling them to be successful in college, careers and life in general. Subscribe today! Really frustrated.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2019

Research has found notable connections among SEL skills and academic success, behavioral health as well as social-emotional development in school and later in life. The Missing Piece , a 2013 nationally representative survey of pre-K to grade 12 teachers, revealed that 95 percent believed SEL skills were teachable.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big increase in homeschooled students, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources. There isn’t reliable data that tracks distinctions between some of these alternatives, such as homeschools and microschools, says Watson, of Johns Hopkins.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Devanhi, 12, recently finished sixth grade at Jackson Middle School in the Guilford County district. It’s a long road of recovery.”

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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 13, 2019

Research shows that counselors who work in schools that serve a high percentage of low-income students have higher caseloads and dedicate less time to college planning and support. Nationally, the average student-to-counselor ratio is 482 to 1, according to the American School Counselor Association.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The effects of such practices can reverberate throughout a student’s life, according to the American Psychological Association, leading to worse mental health and lower grades. “We The study on “frequent teacher referrers” was published in the journal Education Researcher this summer. But really, it's not just a one-sided thing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

So college has become more like the K-12 experience, where we are teaching them how to be adults in the world.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. That should not shock anyone.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

At the time, The New York City Department of Education was developing a research division focused solely on student motivation. Alicia Wolcott, a school advisor for Eskolta School Research and Design, a New York-based education-consulting firm that is working with the New York City Department of Education on academic and personal behaviors.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Researchers have long hypothesized that teachers’ unconscious attitudes and prejudices may limit learning and degrade the educational experiences of Black youth. David Quinn is an assistant professor of education in the K-12 education policy concentration at the USC Rossier School of Education.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2020

The research helped inform his influential “ attachment theory ,” which emphasizes the bond between parent and child and the harms that come from separating them. Those studies are part of a large body of research on what happens when kids are separated from their parents. Researchers worry how kids will cope with not having playmates.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

“Teachers can do only so much, so paraprofessionals are the bridge for students to receive the individualized services they need,” said Ritu Chopra, executive director of the Paraprofessional Resource and Research Center at the University of Colorado Denver. They become the eyes and ears of the teachers. People were feeling trauma.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2020

While their counterparts around the country were sweating through the complex, time-consuming, nerve-wracking process of choosing and being accepted to a college — an experience some students find so intimidating, research shows, that they don’t even bother — Ponce and her classmates, including her twin sister, Yazmine, were already in.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. But what is it, exactly?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

New research shows young children may be fascinated by screens, but they are unable to learn from them even if someone on the screen actively engages with them. The recent research from Vanderbilt University’s Georgene Troseth, an associate professor of psychology, specifically looked at whether toddlers can learn from a video chat.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

It’s 12:15 p.m. Kendall Cotton Bronk, associate professor of psychology, Claremont Graduate University. Research and scholarship on “purpose” has gained momentum in recent years, converging from developmental psychology, moral philosophy, positive psychology and other directions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Tahiv McGee, who graduated from North Star this spring and will attend Pomona College this fall, explains the research study he worked on at Rutgers-Newark. Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I was in the first year of the top doctorate program in my field, and we were 20 educators-in-training being taught best practices of various communication research methods by supposed leading experts. Accurate information directly impacts who gets what resources — aren’t you an educator and literal expert in communication and research?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself. Divided minds. It’s not just young people who are smartphone obsessed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Research shows if children are struggling to read at the end of first grade, they are likely to still be struggling as fourth graders. Related : What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

researchers collected all the studies they could find on peer interaction, in which children are either discussing or collaborating on an assignment together in small groups of two, three or four students. A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Three research studies find that the objects detract from learning. But the research process is slow and methodical, and finally in 2019, there is more conclusive evidence that the whirring lobes of plastic are harmful to learning. Some schools banned them from classrooms well before researchers had the proof. So 2017, right?

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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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Psychology Humanities Research Cultures 140

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”) Furthermore, research reveals that punishing offenders may not necessarily meet victims’ needs. Photo: Jim Vaiknoras for The Hechinger Report. Higher Education.

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