The National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources is offering a set of four webinars providing further information on recent calls for research proposals that address areas of special interest to EHR. These areas span a range of topics of potential interest to psychological scientists who work in the area of education. More
Growth mindsets aren’t just for students. It helps for teachers to have a growth mindset about their students’ mindsets, too. A teacher’s classroom approach shapes whether their students believe they are born with fixed academic skills or can grow them through practice and experience, according to Carol Dweck, the Stanford More
Scientists from across the globe shared their successes and hurdles in promoting a science-focused model for training clinical researchers and practitioners. More
Discussion of this myth provides rich opportunities to integrate topics across research methods, memory, cognition, sensation and perception, and social psychology. More
Some scientists are truly extraordinary mentors. Take, for example, professor Charlotta Turner, a chemist at Lund University in Sweden, who in 2014 received a text from her Ph.D. student telling her that he might not finish his thesis in time. When she learned that her student, Firas Jumaah, was in More
Gregory L. Fenves had heard the calls for change, and he pledged to act. Standing before a quiet auditorium in the fall of 2016, the University of Texas at Austin’s president detailed a path forward: Project 2021. In five years, he said, the university wanted most of Austin’s students to More
