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When so Many School Children Can’t Read, It’s Time To Do Something Different
APS Member/Author: Angeline Lillard More than half of Texas third graders cannot read at grade level. Might they do better with an entirely different educational approach? Typically we teach children to read, beginning in preschool
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Cattell Fund Projects Explore Prenatal Maternal Distress, High-Stakes Decision-Making, Neuroscience of Reading
Fellowships for Elisabeth Conradt of the University of Utah, Ian Krajbich of the Ohio State University, and Nicole Landi of the University of Connecticut and Yale University will allow them to take extended sabbatical periods for their research.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on procrastination and precrastination, reading, pronouns and cultural success, and ovulatory cycle and women’s preferences.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sampling of research about the effects of information timing on risky choices and on visual word representation in reading.
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Goswami Receives Yidan Prize for Dyslexia Research
APS Fellow Usha Goswami has been named a recipient of the Yidan Prize for Education in recognition of her world-leading research on the importance of linguistic pattern recognition in reading acquisition.
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A Lack of Background Knowledge Can Hinder Reading Comprehension
Students may find a topic difficult to understand if their background knowledge doesn’t pass a certain threshold, but a quick test can help identify those students who are at risk of falling behind.
