Skills You Will Need To Succeed In The 21St-Century Workplace
(APA’s Psychology Student Network)
Employer-valued skills that will prepare you for any career.
Is Email Making Professors Stupid?
(Chronicle of Higher Education)
Email has become a kind of digital water torture for the scholar struggling to think without interruption.
Degree + Skills: How to Get a Job With a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology
(APA’s Psychology Student Network)
How to meet the “both-and” criteria when applying for jobs.
Defending the Major: Exploiting the Workforce Advantage of the Psychology Degree
(APA’s Psychology Student Network)
The best defense of the psychology major is a good offense.
Retrieving Knowledge Already Learned
(Education in Chemistry)
Unfortunately, most students are unaware of effective study strategies, and choose to spend their time on ineffective practices like rereading or highlighting. Research has shown that, in opposition to these methods, active retrieval of previously learned knowledge is significantly more effective.
Is Homework Valuable or Not? Try Looking at Quality Instead
(Education Week – Curriculum Matters – Subscription Required, Free Trial)
Homework is one those never-ending debates in K-12 circles that re-emerges every few years, bringing with it a new collection of headlines. Usually they bemoan how much homework students have, or highlight districts and even states that have sought to cap or eliminate homework.
‘We Went Through This Together.’ How Parkland Survivors Are Helping Each Other Cope 1 Year Later
(Time)
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teacher Diane Wolk-Rogers now begins every class by asking her students to relax into their chairs, close their eyes and breathe deeply for a few moments.
Testing in the Classroom: The Importance of Feedback
(Learning Scientists)
The learning gains associated with retrieval practice occur with or without feedback. However, the absence of feedback does carry risks, particularly when student attempts at retrieval are unsuccessful.
The One Change That Boosts a High School’s Academic Performance
(Scientific American)
A study in Seattle shows the power of starting the day later
Support for Group Work From Cognitive Load Theory
(Filing the Pail)
Sharing cognitive load in this way has become known in cognitive load theory as the ‘collective working memory effect’. It is relatively new and there is not yet a huge amount of experimental data that tests the idea.
Multitasking Increases in Online Courses Compared to Face-To-Face
(Science Daily)
The phenomenon of multitasking across three or four internet-connected devices simultaneously is increasingly common. Researchers were curious to know how often this happens during online education, a method of delivering college and even high school courses entirely via an internet-connected computer as opposed to a traditional face-to-face course with a teacher physically present.
Surrounded by Low Achievers: High on Positive Emotions?
(Science Daily)
Researchers demonstrate negative impacts of high-achieving environment on school students’ individual emotional well-being.
Just What Are ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policies – and Are They Still Common in America’s Schools?
(The Conversation)
When parents and educators discuss school discipline, one of the things that comes up most are “zero tolerance” policies. This term is often misused and misunderstood, according to new research I published recently.
The Economic Gains (Yes, Gains) of a Liberal Arts Education
(Inside Higher Ed)
Sure, engineers earn more, but new study shows that liberal arts college grads are doing just fine and seeing economic mobility — and that much of what is said about graduates of these programs is not backed by evidence.
Children May Struggle More With a Noisy Classroom Than Adults
(Education Week)
Students develop the foundation for lifelong reading skills in early elementary school, and a new neuroscience study suggests they may be particularly hindered in that learning by background noise.
Learning on the Field and in the Classroom
(Effortful Educator)
Not only does play on the soccer field imitate much that can lead a person to being very successful, it also mimics the classroom. Most practices are setup the same way.
Retrieval Practice in the Collaborative Setting
(Effortful Educator)
While I frequently discuss with my students its benefits when studying alone, I wonder how working with a partner or group affects retrieval practices’ benefits. How could studying and reviewing with a buddy influence both the person asking the question and the person who is tasked with speaking the answer?
