https://phys.org/science-news/education en-us Phys.org provides latest news on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education In the first national study analyzing the support of academic couples, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a full ranking of universities by their partner-friendly status and resources for dual-career academic jobseekers. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-national-partner-friendly-dual-career.html Economics & Business Education Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:22:45 EDT news638169762 Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-phonics.html Education Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:00:01 EDT news638099544 Language processing is a highly intricate human function, and it has been extensively studied in the fields of psychology and education. Eye movement measurement, particularly for written language, has proven to be a beneficial method for language processing. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-extensive-eye-tracking-dataset-derived.html Education Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:16:26 EDT news638104585 Bob Moses, who helped register Black residents to vote in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, believed civil rights went beyond the ballot box. To Moses, who was a teacher as well as an activist, math literacy is a civil right: a requirement to earning a living wage in modern society. In 1982, he founded the Algebra Project to ensure that "students at the bottom get the math literacy they need." https://phys.org/news/2024-06-access-algebra-civil-rights.html Mathematics Education Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:40:01 EDT news638099508 The purpose of education is to ensure that students acquire the skills necessary for succeeding in a world that is constantly changing. Self-assessment, or teaching students how to examine and evaluate their own learning and cognitive processes, has proven to be an effective method, and this competence is partly based on metacognitive knowledge. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-students-awareness-cognitive-math.html Mathematics Education Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:09:03 EDT news638021342 The creative thinking ability of 15-year-olds in Germany corresponds to the OECD average. That is a further result of the latest PISA study. The analysis shows that creative thinking skills closely correlate to results in the core competencies in mathematics, reading and the natural sciences. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-german-students-middle-creative.html Education Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:13:04 EDT news637942381 A wide range of innovative products, from biomedical implants to aerospace composites, come from research in materials informatics (MI)—the combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence and computational methodologies with materials science. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-collaborative-approaches-materials-informatics-workforce.html Education Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:45:25 EDT news637933523 To get high scores on essay writing tests, learners of English as a foreign language need to focus on good arguments more than on complex grammar. The Kobe University finding challenges conventional approaches to test preparation and scoring rubrics. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-rethinking-english-essay-scores.html Education Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:54:03 EDT news637930441 Children and young people's understanding of artificial intelligence and AI technologies improved when the basics of AI were taught in school through hands-on activities supported by new educational technology, a recent study among more than 200 Finnish 4th and 7th graders shows. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-children-critical-creativity-collaborative-ai.html Education Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:47:03 EDT news637930021 With more working hours and lower average base pay, the well-being of U.S. teachers continues to be worse than that of similar working adults—a consistent pattern since 2021, according to a new RAND survey. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-teachers-worse-pay-similar-population.html Economics & Business Education Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:10:01 EDT news637854721 University of Melbourne researchers have found prolonged COVID-19 lockdowns have led to a significant reduction in children's book ownership post-pandemic, with children putting aside traditional reading materials in favor of tablets. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-struggle-screens-children-attention.html Education Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:16:48 EDT news637852606 Children across the United States who identify as LGBTQ+ say the sexual health education curricula they receive is leaving them without essential information to make informed decisions about their sexual health—which could force them to seek potentially dangerous advice elsewhere. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-sexual-health-curriculum-lgbtq-students.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:01 EDT news637575850 New research from the University at Buffalo offers groundbreaking insights into the strategies that help students from underrepresented groups succeed academically and in their careers. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-career-disparities-minoritized-students.html Education Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:48:11 EDT news637588087 For the most part, Norwegian girls enjoy going to school, whereas boys exhibit a marked dislike of the school setting. One of the problems is that boys experience school as unfair. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-norwegian-boys-school-group.html Education Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:24:04 EDT news637424641 The online education industry has grown exponentially over the last decade, fueled in part by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a new study, researchers examined whether online courses provided by online educational platforms should follow a scheduled format, like traditional classes, or be available on demand. The study found that offering courses on demand increased revenue for those platforms but reduced student engagement. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-demand-courses-revenue-engagement.html Education Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:10:01 EDT news637420025 During the 2022 school year, schools banned books more often than ever before in United States history. Katie Spoon, Isabelle Langrock, and colleagues analyzed data from PEN America on 2,532 book bans that occurred during the year, in combination with county-level administrative data, book sales data, and a novel crowd-sourced dataset of author demographic information. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-political-action-evidence-schools.html Education Political science Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:12:03 EDT news637416722 There is increasing concern that children are less focused in school. This is often blamed on smartphones and social media. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-online-platforms-student-engagement-school.html Education Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:10:02 EDT news637414708 A study featuring more than 3,500 Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) students and 294 teachers reveals that teachers' commitment to inclusive education favors their students' socio-emotional skills. The findings are published in the journal Learning and Instruction. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-inclusive-students-socio-emotional-skills.html Education Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:07:02 EDT news637344421 How do you teach someone to be a teacher? And what does it mean to be a professional educator? Those questions are at the heart of a new book from a University of Kansas educator and author working to guide the methods of how English arts teachers are prepared to lead their own classrooms. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-methods-future-english-teachers.html Education Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:10:01 EDT news637340483 Just four years ago, following the murder of George Floyd, almost every college and university in the U.S. had at least one diversity, equity and inclusion—or DEI—program. Many had existed long before. These programs ranged from DEI-related degrees and professional training to resources for culturally, linguistically and neurologically diverse students.But in the last year and a half in almost every state, 159 institutions have reduced or eliminated these programs. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-dei-rollbacks-colleges-universities.html Education Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:00:01 EDT news637333064 In a new publication, in the journal Cell, CU Boulder scientists detail how the SkillsCenter allows students to gain credentials in basic to advanced research skills https://phys.org/news/2024-06-scientists-students-vanquish.html Education Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:19:17 EDT news637327154 Different social contexts can transform the meaning and implications of life experiences. For example, a life event like teen childbirth can have vastly different impacts depending on the era and societal norms. In the post-World War II baby boom, teen births were relatively common. The 1960s, however, was the beginning of a period that marked increasing economic returns from education for women and changing norms about the timing of motherhood. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-highlights-impact-teen-childbirth-women.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:19:12 EDT news637327150 The University of Kentucky Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition (DHN) has made significant strides in preparing its dietetics students for real-world clinical settings through an innovative program incorporating Simulation-Based Learning Experiences (SBLEs). https://phys.org/news/2024-06-simulation-based-dietetics-students-clinical.html Education Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:14:04 EDT news637323241 Private philanthropy has long been a key source of funding for U.S. scientists, particularly as government support has failed to keep pace with the rising cost of research. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-reveals-complex-dynamics-philanthropic-funding.html Economics & Business Education Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:37:05 EDT news637245421 Boys are good at math, girls not so much? A study from the University of Zurich has analyzed the social mechanisms that contribute to the gender gap in math confidence. While peer comparisons seem to play a crucial role for boys, girls' subjective evaluations are more likely to be based on objective performance. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-results-peers-crucial-boys-confidence.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:16:03 EDT news637236961 Handwriting is dead. At least that's what a New York Times article announced in 2023 in its postmortem investigation "What Killed Penmanship?" But there was no doubt about the culprit: technology. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-tech-penmanship-messy-problem-centuries.html Other Education Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:55:04 EDT news637235702 Online education is effective for teaching complicated topics like quantum information science (QIS) to high school science educators, according to a new paper by University of Texas at Arlington researchers published in The Physics Teacher. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-online-professional-complex-topics.html Education Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:14:06 EDT news636984841 What happens when environmental scientists and higher music education teachers and students explore together how music can promote sustainability? https://phys.org/news/2024-06-ecological-higher-music-requires-radical.html Education Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:03:03 EDT news636739381 Engineers who received public welfare responsibility training in classes are more likely to consider the societal impact of technologies they design and to take action when concerns arise, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers published in The Journal of Engineering Education. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-formal-classes-effective-welfare.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:21:04 EDT news636726061 Perceived unjust teacher behavior is strongly and positively associated with populist attitudes among children and adolescents. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-teens-unfairly-teachers-populist-attitudes.html Education Political science Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:17:37 EDT news636725854