From the Frontiers press release: Children have an insatiable appetite to understand why things are the way they are, leading to their apt description as “little scientists.” While researchers have been aware of children’s interest…
From the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz press release: The Internet and social media are among the most frequently used sources of information today. Students, too, often prefer online information rather than traditional teaching materials provided…
From the Baylor University press release: College students who listened to classical music by Beethoven and Chopin during a computer-interactive lecture on microeconomics — and heard the music played again that night — did better…
From the Washington State University press release: When teachers use a funny joke, a cat video or even background music in their lessons, it can keep students from understanding the main content. These so-called “seductive…
From the CNRS press release: Even before uttering their first words, babies master the grammar basics of their mother tongue. Thus eight-month-old French infants can distinguish function words, or functors — e.g. articles (the), personal…
From the University of Missouri-Columbia press release: Technology has shifted the way that professors teach students in higher education. For example, by uploading recorded lectures online, students can reference a digital copy of the topics…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release: A new longitudinal study of fifth and sixth graders in Germany examined the relation between classmates’ gender stereotypes and individual students’ reading outcomes to shed…
From the Ohio State University press release: Researchers — and parents — have long known that babies learn to speak by mimicking the words they hear. But a new study shows that babies also might…
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München press release: Learners of foreign languages can hear the errors in pronunciation that fellow learners tend to make, but continue to fall foul of them themselves despite years of practice. A…
From the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology press release: Research has shown that testing enhances memory. However, less is known on whether testing can improve a person’s ability to make inferences. A new…