ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Kyllonen: We can now go beyond traditional methods with rich process data, including student conversation data. In cognitive psychology, we know this as the testing effect. This allows everyone, including the learner, to make the best data-based decisions possible. This puts assessment in a different light.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

In this guest post, Cori Schwarzrock shares her experience using blended learning models in her AP psychology course. I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Cori Schwarzrock is an AP Psychology teacher at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Il.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

Researching Socioeconomic Status Outside Of The Classroom Clever and Miller (2019) held a study that looked at a non-traditional learning experience with college-aged students. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 37(3), 193–199. We need to be aware of that impact in order to work around it. References Baker, M., & Johnston, P.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

We don’t have the traditional view that we’re somehow ‘letting these kids in’ to be influenced by us.”. I wanted to hear a lot of different perspectives and see how they made sense of things,” said Austin, 35, who graduated on Wednesday with a degree in psychology. It has put emotional and financial supports in place.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 5, 2020

However, as time has passed, I have reflected on this annual tradition and deemed it to be quite silly in the greater scheme of things. In almost every case, I tried to commit to something health-related like getting to the gym more or eating better. And the number keeps decreasing with age.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Don’t Use Physical Education As Punishment contributed by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Executive Director for SPARK Think about any time you’ve seen “army boot camp” portrayed in pop culture — are you picturing the traditional drill sergeant, ordering his troops to do endless laps and push-ups, as punishment for their errors that day?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Is it time to give traditional letter grade systems an F and replace them with alternatives that focus more on getting more students to master material? And new research points to better ways to strengthen student-teacher relationships and a sense of belonging, argues Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

Yaritza Garcia, a 22-year-old psychology major at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, said she wanted to supplement traditional therapy services with a peer counseling program. When he enrolled again at 21, he was in a much better place.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 7, 2025

Agency, freewill, and vice Political corruption Epistemic Injustice Bad laws and governance The phenomenology of hate Thucydides on the origin of stasis and polemos Hubris and Apotheosis The psychology of evil Greek tragedy and vice (e.g., In this conference, we seek to explore vice and its various manifestations and effects.

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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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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

While traditional approaches often emphasize additional English Language Arts (ELA) instruction, studies show that building background knowledge through content-rich subjects is far more effective. Similarly, a February 2024 study in Developmental Psychology provided strong causal evidence that science instruction also drives literacy growth.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

Traditional whole-group instruction can make it challenging to meet the goals of UDL, as the one-size-fits-all approach may not be suitable for all learners. However, many traditional classrooms do not reflect this reality, providing limited opportunities for authentic and meaningful engagement with the subject matter or other students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report Much attention in the post-pandemic era has been on what students have lost – days of school, psychological health, knowledge and skills. We’ve seen partnering with the YMCA and with health groups for medical services and psychological evaluations.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class. The kids who had been taught via traditional, explicit instruction switched to reviewing the remaining algebra topics through their errors. And the kids who had been correcting their errors received eight sessions of traditional test prep.

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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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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!”) Restorative justice, meanwhile, with its emphasis on community, empathy and perspective-taking, may make up for some of the shortcomings of traditional disciplinary action.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

A February 2024 study published in Developmental Psychology provides strong causal evidence that building scientific background knowledge translates into higher reading achievement , particularly for low-income students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Grades are too often used as weapons that can create psychological and emotional harm to young people whose experiences, cultural practices and behaviors are incompatible with their schools and educators. We now have a real chance to disrupt traditional grading practices in schools, districts and even higher education.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 11, 2024

Her plan after graduation is to apply to the University of Minnesota’s main campus to major in psychology, entering halfway to her bachelor’s degree and thereby cutting out two years of paying for college. We really did want our students of color and our females to be able to look through these glass walls and say, ‘That’s cool.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments,” said Ratliff. “A Meanwhile, new findings in developmental psychology are shedding a fresh light on what motivates middle schoolers. A Developmental “Mismatch”.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. Herein lies the dilemma. As described by the U.S.

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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

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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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

This year marked the first time that applicants were required to submit video essays on their favorite history lessons, as opposed to traditional essays. Toyosi’s winning submission detailed a World War I project that allowed her to connect with the soldiers' experiences through a hands-on approach.

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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

JUNE 23, 2024

Students in the study who were taught math through an applied approach performed significantly better on two of three standardized tests than those taught math in a more traditional way. She struggled in the traditional algebra class and had to withdraw, and the same happened in a statistics course.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

According to the American Psychological Association, students from more affluent families are more likely to have access to resources such as devices, internet, dedicated work space and the support necessary to complete their work successfully—and homework can highlight those inequities.

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It can knock students off the traditional developmental path and leave them without crucial social and emotional skills, says Anne Marie Albano, a clinical psychologist with experience in school avoidance. Avoidance has become a crisis in recent years, one that schools aren’t prepared to handle, according to mental health experts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Tenenbaum’s advice isn’t to get rid of traditional instruction but to use peer discussions to reinforce a lecture. The study, “ How effective is peer interaction in facilitating learning?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

” Facilities Access When it comes to spaces like restrooms and locker rooms, Edwards says “Every major medical and psychological association would recommend that trans kids and gender-expansive kids access the facilities that match their gender identity.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

But are they any better than traditional schools, or other progressive teaching philosophies? The main problem is that you can’t randomly assign some students to Montessori schools and study how they do compared with students at traditional schools. Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Eventually she declared a major in psychology and a minor in art. Now a senior at Chestnut Hill College, Erin Crowley changed her major from psychology to accounting. Chestnut Hill College senior Alexis Stoner arrived without having picked a major and instead waited to see what she liked; she eventually settled on psychology. “I

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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. Grafting ethnography onto journalism has been suggested for decades—it’s time to put it into practice.

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