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. Below is an adapted section of Chapter 4 from our book that looks as research that can influence learning space design in classrooms and schools. Additionally, the study indicated that whole-school factors (e.g.,

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 30, 2021

Research shows how students learn best, and it's not by talking at them for extended periods. By constructing a psychologically safe environment through reframing metacognitive interpretation of subjective difficulty, children can express their full cognitive potential (Autin & Croizet, 2012). Frontiers in psychology, 8, 1454.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Research by Avolio, Walumbwa, and Weber (2009) highlighted that transparent leaders encourage participative decision-making, improving the quality of decisions and enhancing staff embracement of ideas, strategies, and new initiatives. Leadership: Current theories, research, and future directions. Decision-making is also enhanced.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings. It’s not the long-term solution.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Dozens of nonprofit organizations have promoted the research evidence that it will help their children do better in school. A new wave of research over the past decade has looked at how much parents talk about numbers and shapes with their children, and whether these spontaneous and natural conversations help children learn the subject.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Research suggests students may simply ignore up to two-thirds of feedback comments and so I’d rather go for a 100 % hit rate where every single student responds to the feedback they receive. A key principle here is that I’m usually only intending to give each student one specific piece of feedback to work on.

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Jonathan Firth

JUNE 2, 2022

Image source: Unsplash In most psychology and related courses, learners are expected to write short essays or extended exam-style answers about research studies or theories. I want to share some tips about how to structure this type of essay. It will be especially useful if you are a student in your final years of school (e.g.

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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.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While its role in Aztec rituals and warfare has long intrigued archaeologists, recent research published in Communications Psychology 1 explores its impact on the human brain. This study provides new insights into how these whistles amplified fear, heightened emotional states, and reinforced the psychological power of Aztec rituals.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2024

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Instead, we're taking the researchers’ questions to that data. A lot of the studies are about freshman college kids, right?

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Definition Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a person, after repeated failures or negative experiences, believes they have no control over situations’ outcomes and stops trying to improve or change them. by TeachThought Staff What is learned helplessness? So all future tasks become skewed by that.

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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. But a recent international analysis of all the available research on special education inclusion found inconsistent results. Again, more research is needed to confirm this statistically.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2022

Establishing and maintaining relationships is paramount, which Is why I detailed research-based ways to improve morale in a previous post and in Digital Leadership. Research has found that people are reluctant to admit they have failed because of a general desire to avoid negative social evaluation and disapproval from others (Leary, 2007).

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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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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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Political Science Now

MARCH 22, 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. Suhyen Bae is a Ph.D.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

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. Mayer ranks as the most productive educational psychologist in the world by the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology, and he has a highly cited theory of multimedia learning.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2022

A few months later, the chief science officer at the American Psychological Association testified before a Senate committee that America’s youth mental health system was fundamentally flawed. The research that we do have is inadequate in terms of helping us understand the ways in which the internet and social media affect youth 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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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2022

Below are some simple strategies that you can use immediately and long-term, many of which are research-based. Research has shown that feedback is vital in establishing good relations as it can enhance relationships, strengthen loyalty and commitment, and increase morale (Smith, 2009). & Ryan, R. 1994) Promoting Self?determined

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ShortCutsTV

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete Psychology library of films to schools and colleges at a reasonable and affordable subscription rate (£25 a year or roughly 50p a week for access to what is currently 50+ […]

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Two meta-analyses on growth mindset were published online in the fall of 2022 in the journal Psychological Bulletin and arrived at opposite conclusions about one of the most popular ideas in education. How could two such studies come out within just three weeks of each other in Psychological Bulletin and arrive at opposite conclusions?

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2023

Research provides a sound rationale for its importance and impact on learners. Educational psychology: developing learners (7th ed.). In particular, I see a clear connection to how path and pace can promote self-regulation, a competency that is important for students in school and all of us in our professional lives. An article by Y.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Now a trio of economists say they’ve been able to calculate some of these psychological costs. The downsides of homework and scheduled activities were most pronounced during the high school years, when students are feeling pressure to earn high grades and load up on extracurriculars for their college applications, the researchers found.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2020

Graduate students have had their research interrupted. As a biologist, of course, I understand the importance of acting appropriately in this moment,” said Gildea, whose research into neurodegenerative disease, and potential ways to slow it, has been under way for two years. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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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.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 3, 2024

Below are four possible explanations from cognitive psychology to explain this occurrence, followed by some possible solutions. Research by Cowan in 2010 showed evidence that four chunks are about all we can process in working memory at any one time. In cognitive psychology, this is a kind of dual coding of information.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A study published in 2023 in the journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology documented that second graders memorized more multiplication facts when they practiced using flashcards rather than by repeating their times tables aloud. Researchers may eventually find that a combination of techniques is even more powerful.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers have found that PE teachers and coaches think physical punishment is an effective way to show students that there are consequences to their actions; they’re not wrong, and in fact, that’s exactly the problem. That’s right.

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