From the University of Tsukuba press release: Social rewards such as praise are known to enhance various stages of the learning process. Now, researchers from Japan have found that praise delivered by artificial beings such…
From the University of Eastern Finland press release: Teacher-perceived conflict predicts lower interest and pre-academic skills in math and literacy among kindergarteners, a new study from Finland shows. Kindergarten represents a crucial context in which…
From the RUDN University press release: A team of linguists from RUDN University established that a person’s ability to accurately differentiate between vowel sounds of a foreign language correlates with the size of their vocabulary…
From the University of Cambridge press release: A brain chemical called noradrenaline is responsible for our responses to uncertain situations – helping us to learn quickly and adapt our behaviour, a new study has found.…
From the Ohio State University press release: Humans are born with a part of the brain that is prewired to be receptive to seeing words and letters, setting the stage at birth for people to…
From the University of South Australia press release: International expert in creativity and innovation, UniSA’s Professor David Cropley, is calling for Australian schools and universities to increase their emphasis on teaching creativity, as new research…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau press release: Scanning social media while listening to a lecture. Watching a favorite television series while studying. Today’s young people frequently juggle multiple streams of information…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: Reading is the gateway for learning, but one-third of elementary school students in the United States do not read at grade level. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are…
From the Florida State University press release: As head of the educational outreach arm of the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Roxanne Hughes has overseen dozens of science camps over the years,…
From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology press release: Professor Audrey van der Meer at NTNU believes that national guidelines should be put into place to ensure that children receive at least a minimum…