APA Style Guide Endorses 1-Space Rule
(Inside Higher Ed)
Gather round, style hounds: the seventh edition of the American Psychological Association’s Publication Manual, due out in October, includes some (pretty) significant changes.
Study: College Presidents Prioritizing Student Mental Health
(Inside Higher Ed)
As cases of student anxiety and depression skyrocket, top university officials are focusing more on these issues, according to a new report.
Simple Ways to Integrate Four Evidence-Based Teaching Strategies
(Edutopia)
Jennifer Gonzalez talks with a researcher and a teacher to tackle the science—and the logistics—behind teaching strategies like spaced practice and interleaving.
Unique Back-to-School Campaign Expands Reach of LG ‘Life’s Good: Experience Happiness’ Initiative
(Yahoo News)
‘Life’s Good’ Brand Partners with SoulPancake; #Day1 Campaign Brings Sustainable Happiness Skills to More Youth Across the Nation
Why Popularity Matters
(APA’s Speaking of Psychology Podcast – transcript available)
Some of us recall high school as being filled with fun parties, football games and flirting while others think back to that time with a shudder and are just glad it’s over. But is it really over? Does our social status as teens follow us for the rest of our lives? Can we raise today’s children and teens differently in our ever-status-obsessed culture?
Using Dance to Promote SEL Skills
(Edutopia)
Bringing dance into the classroom with simple exercises can help elementary students develop social and emotional learning skills.
Graduate Students Are Increasingly Shouldering The Country’s Student Debt
(NPR’s All Things Considered)
Americans owe more in student loan debt than credit card debt. And a large share of the country’s $1.5 trillion in student loan debt is graduate school debt.
Impulsive Behavior Linked to Sleep and Screen Time
(Science Daily)
A new article suggests that children and youth who do not sleep enough and use screens more than recommended are more likely to act impulsively and make poorer decisions.
Positive Lab Environment Critical for Undergraduate Success in Research, Study Shows
(Science Daily)
A recent study found that more than half of life sciences students who participated in the study considered leaving their undergraduate research experience. Ultimately, more than half decided to leave. They also found the most important factors that influence whether a student decides to continue working in research included a positive lab environment and enjoying their everyday research tasks.
Growth Mindset Intervention Boosts Confidence, Persistence in Entrepreneurship Students
(Science Daily)
A low-cost intervention aimed at fostering a growth mindset in students gave the students more confidence in their entrepreneurship abilities and helped them persist when challenges arose.
A Growth Mindset Intervention Can Change Students’ Grades If School Culture Is Supportive
(Science Daily)
Boosting academic success does not have to derive from new teachers or curriculum; it can also come from changing students’ attitudes about their abilities through a short online intervention, according to new research.
How Testing Kids For Skills Can Hurt Those Lacking Knowledge
(KQED – Mind/Shift)
The implication is clear: abstract “reading ability” is largely a mirage constructed by reading tests. A student’s ability to comprehend a text will vary depending on his familiarity with the subject; no degree of “skill” will help if he lacks the knowledge to understand it.
The Knowledge Gap
(Quillette)
Let me lead you through a portal created in the basement of some secretive and sinister government laboratory and into the Educational Upside Down.
Debate Arises over Teaching “Growth Mindsets” to Motivate Students
(Scientific American)
Research shows conflicting data on the impact of the intervention, but a major new study confirms it can work.
Food Insecurity Common Among US College Students
(Psych Central)
The study, conducted by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, surveyed nearly 86,000 students from 123 U.S. educational institutions and found that 41% of university and 48% of two-year college students reported food insecurity.
How The Brain Remembers The Order Of Events
(Medical Press)
The new research published in the journal Cell Reports titled “The Generation of Time in the Hippocampal Memory System’ builds on the discovery by Nobel prize winners May-Britt and Edvard Moser that an input region to the hippocampus—the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) – has time ramping cells that slowly change their rates of activity over hundreds of seconds; and on the discovery that hippocampal time cells fire at separate times in a sequence.
