Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2015

Angela Duckworth, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching 7th grade math in New York City public schools when she quickly noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students. Here, we take a deeper dive into her research, and the role technology may play in fostering grit in students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

In a middle school hallway in Charlottesville, Virginia, a pair of sixth grade girls sat shoulder to shoulder on a lime-green settee, creating comic strips that chronicled a year of pandemic schooling. . Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

And plenty of schools and colleges are wondering: Will this new realm work for education? A new study co-authored by one of the world’s most prominent researchers on the effectiveness of edtech, Richard Mayer, offers some answers to that question.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

A study of 2,500 middle school students finds that the acquisition of scientific reasoning skills produces stronger learning gains. In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

There’s been a lot of time, effort and money expense from companies and from researchers on creating learning analytics dashboards for teachers,” said Ken Holstein, an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. “If Student psychology appears to be at play.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Although some educators are familiar with this research, most of us are not. Department of Education, the “most important concrete and applicable principles to emerge from research on learning and memory.” It is time to know and do better. A 2019 survey of teachers uncovered some of these gaps. Scientists are trying. Brown, Henry L.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

We weren’t surprised,” said Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Georgia, and one of the authors of the study , which encompassed 458 children. The program operates in partnership with public schools, private child care centers and other organizations.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. But researchers set up a review class to test a theory about the best way to study for a test. Half of the kids came from families that lived below the poverty line in Harlem and upper Manhattan.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Yes, it can be, according to two groups of researchers who have tested how programs aimed at fostering belonging have impacted students’ academic performances. Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

One widely used program called CHAMPS was recently tested in a study involving more than 100 teachers and almost 1,500 middle-school students in a randomized controlled trial — the kind of gold-standard experiment that is common in medicine but not in education. Many popular programs haven’t been evaluated by outside researchers.

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Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 31, 2020

Researchers say that reducing the burden of teaching experienced by so many teachers is critical to improve student success — both academically and behaviorally. The outsize influence of your middle-school friends (The Atlantic) The intensity of feelings generated by friendship in childhood and adolescence is by design.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As students and teachers return to school, many are focused on rebuilding the relationships that 84 percent of teachers felt suffered during the pandemic. 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. Lozada, F.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

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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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

Memorizing formulas and drilling in the “proper” approach through repetition too often take precedence over conceptual understanding and experiencing multiple strategies, both of which are important according to research. Hear from Dr. Gerardo Ramirez on How to Help Students Build Positive Mindsets Around Math. and Antonio M.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Students participate in a restorative circle, a practice that’s part of a movement away from harsh discipline in schools. 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!”)

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs). The study on “frequent teacher referrers” was published in the journal Education Researcher this summer.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But most schools lack funding or capacity for adequate counseling services for students and staff. “In 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. They’re behind,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Education researchers have been studying ways to prevent behavior problems from erupting in the first place, much like the field of preventive medicine aims to help people live healthier lives to minimize incidence of heart disease, cancer and diabetes. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. The session resembled a theater workshop.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. “In There’s research to back that up. There’s more distractions for guys.

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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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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 In Berkeley, Calif.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared. For women in math classes, for example, perceiving a professor to have fixed views of intelligence prompts expectations of being stereotyped and lowers performance in the course, recent research demonstrates.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Career exploration in the form of internships, externships and apprenticeships is getting more attention around the country, but usually it’s a concern of high schools. Some educators see a need to start sooner, so they turn to their middle schools. Cajon Valley Union School District has 17,000 students across 27 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

This 2017 photo of a New York City middle school shows growth mindset messages on student-made posters. Researchers are finding mindset exercises benefit certain kinds of students and not others. Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

These motivational posters in a New York City middle school are a small example of how growth-mindset theory has swept through schools. A team of researchers found “small” academic benefits from programs to persuade students that intelligence can grow. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

With this privilege, we understand our responsibility to offer research and resources to help families, schools, teachers, and students who are navigating a new reality of learning. Vic Vuchic (Elementary and Middle School Parent): My son is in third grade and my daughter is in sixth grade.

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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

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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Now a second front of attack on grit has opened up, led by nerdy quantitative researchers. In a Saturday session of the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Washington D.C., They asked a group of middle-school students to advise an imaginary fourth-grader on how to keep trying when faced with a challenge.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

There’s little consensus, except that the peril of digital distraction neither starts nor ends in school, and learning to tame our tech obsession is a new and vital life skill. The distraction researchers at Dominguez Hills — Cheever, and psychologists Larry Rosen and Mark Carrier — are digging deeper into compulsive tech use.

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Jonathan Firth

JULY 19, 2016

The testing effect is a well-known psychological phenomena whereby people remember things better if they are tested on them. Memory research in this area suggests that retrieval of information plays a fundamental role in the way a new memory forms. Retrieval practice can be used in a huge range of learning tasks. Image via Pixabay.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2016

Education schools need to get better at both getting scientific research into the hands of future educators and providing those teachers with guidance for turning that research into practice, they said. “My Say you take a course called educational psychology, maybe it’s good, maybe it sucks,” he said.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. That includes librarians as well.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Morgan’s research demonstrates that even when children in the same schools display the same needs, white English-speaking children are more likely to receive the services that they need to excel. The diagnoses should have triggered extra supports at school, but Burns said that much-needed help never materialized. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Williams was just 14 when Marcovitz told her she could be part of something historic at Sci Academy, the charter high school he was opening on the east end of town. Only 4 percent of Middlebury’s students are black, but Barnes found “other ghetto kids,” students who’d grown up, as he had, hearing guns firing in the middle of the night.

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