Educational Psychology News
May 18, 2024
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May 15, 2024 Access to gardens and citizen science projects at school can help promote pro-conservation behaviour among pupils, a new study ...
May 15, 2024 A new study has shown that repetitive practice not only is helpful in improving skills but also leads to profound changes in the brain's memory ...
May 7, 2024 Chimpanzees continue to learn and hone their skills well into adulthood, a capacity that might be essential for the evolution of complex and varied tool use, according to a new ...
May 6, 2024 A new study among ninth-graders attending lower secondary school in Swedish-speaking areas of Finland identified four perfectionistic profiles with varying associations with students' psychological ...
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May 1, 2024 The mysteries of how memory works are explained in a new book that suggests anyone can boost their powers of recall -- and that losing your keys is ...
Apr. 29, 2024 Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help ...
Apr. 26, 2024 Are mice clever enough to be strategic? A neuroscientist who studies learning in humans and animals, and who has long worked with mice, wondered why rodents often performed poorly in tests when they ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Researchers have discovered the neural circuitry in the spinal cord that allows brain-independent motor learning. The study found two critical groups of spinal cord neurons, one necessary for new ...
Mar. 25, 2024 Many parents recognize increasing mental health concerns among children, reflected by the 1 in 5 who say they're open to allowing a child to take a ...
Mar. 25, 2024 Research has often focused on how teachers and educators can best instruct and accommodate students with disabilities. However, are the methods used to teach students with disabilities effective and ...
Mar. 22, 2024 Only a very small percentage of neurons show changes after an epileptic seizure in mice, but these alterations can be permanent and trigger future ...
Mar. 21, 2024 A researcher has developed a new model that provides a holistic view on how our brain manages to learn quickly and forms stable, long-lasting memories. Their study sheds light on the crucial role of ...
Mar. 18, 2024 The use of antipsychotics during pregnancy isn't linked to childhood neurodevelopmental disorders or learning difficulties, study suggests -- giving assurance to those concerned about continuing ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Researchers have identified a mechanism that causes neurological problems in mice infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19. The ...
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Apr. 24, 2024 A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Observers of Japanese early childhood education and care have pointed to the mindset of educators watching over and waiting on preschoolers as being an intriguing tendency. This mimamoru approach has ...
Apr. 17, 2024 Gender stereotypes mean that girls can be celebrated for their emotional openness and maturity in school, while boys are seen as likely to mask their emotional distress through silence or disruptive ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Managing problematic student behavior is one of the most persistent, challenging, and controversial issues facing schools today. Yet despite best intentions to build a more inclusive and ...
Mar. 28, 2024 School quality ratings significantly reflect the preparation of a school's students, not just the school's contribution to learning gains, according to new ...
Mar. 18, 2024 A new analysis estimates that 68 percent of Chicago children under age six live in households with tap water containing detectable levels of ...
Mar. 14, 2024 A positive relationship with a teacher at an early age may help children to feel more engaged with school, but not necessarily in the long term, new research shows. A new study of more than 3,600 ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Three peer-reviewed journals have recently published research papers by Penn State's Hammel Family Human Rights Initiative. The papers illustrate how the initiative's programs help K-12 ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Exposure to several combinations of toxic atmospheric pollutants may be triggering asthma symptoms among children, a recent analysis suggests. The study showed that 25 different combinations of air ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Teachers might be more motivated to help students engage with their emotions and build their resilience when this work is part of lessons, rather than as an add-on intervention, a new study has ...
Mar. 12, 2024 Recent experiments by psychologists shed new light on how we learn and how we remember our real-world experiences. In two experiments, researchers asked participants to repeatedly study pairs of ...
Mar. 11, 2024 We can learn to be happy, but only get lasting benefits if we keep practicing, a new study has ...
Mar. 11, 2024 A new study of how high school students respond to a program designed to increase the frequency and quality of conversations about race in school finds that the anti-racist intervention did not cause ...
Mar. 8, 2024 Smaller class sizes in schools are failing to increase the resilience of children from low-income families, according to a new ...
Mar. 6, 2024 About one-third of autistic people are unable to communicate using speech, and most are never provided an effective alternative. However, a new study suggests that many of these individuals are ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Scientists have been examining the relationship between childhood adversity, and psychiatric decline as well as adult adversity and psychiatric and cognitive ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Neuroscientists say they have found a new function for the SYNGAP1 gene, a DNA sequence that controls memory and learning in mammals, including mice and ...
Feb. 27, 2024 A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of ...
Feb. 27, 2024 Intelligent tutoring systems for math problems helped pupils remain or even increase their performance during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data from five ...
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- Innovative Approaches for Addressing Difficult Topics in K-12 Schools
- Multiple Air Pollutants Linked to Asthma Symptoms in Children
- Explicit Socioemotional Learning Can Have a Key Role in PE Lessons, Study Says
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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- Happiness Can Be Learnt, but You Have to Work at It
- No, an Anti-Racist Program in Schools Didn't Stress out Kids, Study Finds
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- Link Between Adversity, Psychiatric and Cognitive Decline
- Early Vocabulary Size Is Genetically Linked to ADHD, Literacy, and Cognition
Thursday, February 29, 2024
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- New Study Links Placental Oxygen Levels to Fetal Brain Development
- Maths: Smart Learning Software Helps Children During Lockdowns -- And Beyond
- Learning and Memory Problems in Down Syndrome Linked to Alterations in Genome's 'dark Matter'
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- Sleep Improves Ability to Recall Complex Events
- Teachers' Growth Mindset Appears More Important Than Warmth
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- Study Finds Students, Designers Have Different Perceptions of Masculine, Feminine Traits of Classrooms
- Blocking Key Protein May Halt Progression of Alzheimer's Disease
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Monday, December 18, 2023
- Parents' Top Resolutions: More Patience, Less Time on Phones
- AI's Memory-Forming Mechanism Found to Be Strikingly Similar to That of the Brain
- Memory Research: Breathing in Sleep Impacts Memory Processes
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
- Yoga Nidra Might Be a Path to Better Sleep and Improved Memory
- Machine Learning Sees Into the Future to Prevent Sight Loss in Humans
Thursday, December 7, 2023
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- Human Behavior Guided by Fast Changes in Dopamine Levels
- Why Reading Nursery Rhymes and Singing to Babies May Help Them to Learn Language
- Child-Centric Approach: Blueprint to Improve Communities
Thursday, November 30, 2023
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- Brittle Stars Can Learn Just Fine -- Even Without a Brain
- AI May Aid in Diagnosing Adolescents With ADHD
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- Can AI Grasp Related Concepts After Learning Only One?
- A Sustainable Future Is Based on a Learning Society
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- Traumatic Memories Can Rewire the Brain
- Study Reveals Shyness Could Impact Young Children's Performance on Language Tests
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- Jellyfish, With No Central Brain, Shown to Learn from Past Experience
- Trigonelline Derived from Coffee Improves Cognitive Functions in Mice
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
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- Breaking in the Black Box of Pedagogical Authority
- Dopamine Regulates How Quickly and Accurately Decisions Are Made
- Assessing Unintended Consequences in AI-Based Neurosurgical Training
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- Discoveries on Memory Mechanisms Could Unlock New Therapies for Alzheimer's and Other Brain Diseases
- Surprising Study Results: Students Are Bored During Exams
- Researcher Combats Bullying of Students With Disabilities
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- A Healthy Diet, Reading, and Doing Sports Promote Reasoning Skills in Children
- Anti-Obesity Drug Improves Associative Learning in People With Obesity
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- How Sure Is Sure? Incorporating Human Error Into Machine Learning
- Dissecting the Anatomy of a 'superheroic' Science Class
- 'Ebb and Flow' Brain Mechanism That Drives Learning Identified
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- Memory, Forgetting, and Social Learning
- Mathematical Theory Predicts Self-Organized Learning in Real Neurons
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- Researchers Find Little Evidence of Cheating With Online, Unsupervised Exams
- GPT-3 Can Reason About as Well as a College Student, Psychologists Report