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Fostering Motivation Could Help Keep Marginalized Girls in School
A field study in Malawi indicates that psychological factors play an important role in whether girls attended school, even under conditions of extreme poverty and deprivation
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Pre-K: Decades Worth Of Studies, One Strong Message
NPR: Some of the nation’s top researchers who’ve spent their careers studying early childhood education recently got together in Washington with one goal in mind: to cut through the fog of studies and the endless
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Stanford researchers reveal how to study more effectively
The Stanford Daily: In a recent study published in Psychological Science, Stanford researchers concluded that the key to better exam performance is not to work harder, but to use preparatory materials more strategically. The study’s lead
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You Probably Believe Some Learning Myths: Take Our Quiz To Find Out
NPR: This blog post has some pretty useful information. So print it out; get out your highlighter and take off the cap. Ready? Now throw it away, because highlighters don’t really help people learn. We
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Thinking Strategically About Study Resources Boosts Students’ Final Grades
College students who reflected about how to best use classroom resources had higher final grades relative to their peers.
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No evidence to back idea of learning styles
The Guardian: There is widespread interest among teachers in the use of neuroscientific research findings in educational practice. However, there are also misconceptions and myths that are supposedly based on sound neuroscience that are prevalent