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How to Make Online Learning Effective
*APS and the Psychonomic Society jointly oversee the William K. & Katherine W. Estes Fund, established in honor of Estes and his wife. The fund supports the development of new programs to support mathematical issues
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The Elevator Talk
“So tell me what you do.” A common enough request from a potential colleague who missed a job talk, the leader of an interdisciplinary grant team, a new member of upper administration, a development officer.
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Missing From Science Class
The New York Times: A big reason America is falling behind other countries in science and math is that we have effectively written off a huge chunk of our population as uninterested in those fields
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Tiny Foragers: How Do We Know What’s Safe to Eat?
The Huffington Post: It’s the holiday season, and we’ll soon be decorating our home with greenery — holly sprigs, poinsettia, maybe a mistletoe, and of course the tree, probably some kind of spruce. We’ll have
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Standardized tests discriminate against the next Einsteins and Teslas
Quartz: At 16, Albert Einstein wrote his first scientific paper titled “The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields.” This was the result of his famous gedanken experiment in which he visually imagined chasing after
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Solving The Conundrum Of Multiple Choice Tests
NPR: According to just published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, the answer — perhaps surprisingly — can sometimes be choice D. But it depends on how multiple choice questions are designed and deployed. Here’s
