New study says few teachers use methods tested by years of research.

This article presents findings from a doctoral study of families' reflections on their educational transitions leading to school deregistration and undertaking of home education. 

A University of Maryland-led team has received a $4.5 million grant from the Gates Foundation/Walton Family Foundation to improve AI as a tool to strengthen math instruction and boost learning. The researchers will develop a large-scale, open-source dataset for AI model training tools focused on K–12 math education, sourced over the next three years from…

It might also reduce the anxiety associated with using math to answer questions.

In this 3-part series on student engagement, Dr Amy Berry and Dr Kellie Picker are sharing insights from their study Student perspectives on engaging in learning at school, where they surveyed nearly 1,300 Prep to year 12 students and conducted 45 focus groups with 158 students.

Our research suggests that the principles of play, openness and togetherness within drama teaching have the potential to positively contribute to Autistic pupils' experiences of self-esteem, happiness and friendship. (pdf)

This paper shares reflections and stories from a collaborative design process between the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab and a global network of community-based educators to develop a creative coding app called OctoStudio, which supports children and families to create and share interactive projects on mobile devices. (pdf)

 The research objective of this paper is to identify the challenges and opportunities when AI intertwines with instruction and examine how this hybrid teaching intelligence is being perceived by the students. (pdf)

With increasing interest in computer-assisted education, AI-integrated systems become highly applicable with their ability to adapt based on user interactions. In this context, this paper focuses on understanding and analysing first-year undergraduate student responses to an intelligent educational system that applies multi-agent reinforcement learning as an AI tutor. (pdf)

This paper presents a multidimensional view of AI'srole in education, emphasising the intricate interplayamong AI, analytics and human learning processes. (pdf)

Dialogic reading is a practical activity for promoting language skills in early childhood. Based on this premise, the current study compares the impact of face-to-face dialogic reading (with and without a face mask) and reading via screen in enhancing preschool children's story comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. (pdf)

This study reports a new domain-specific measure of parental self-efficacy for maths (and reading skills) with 3–4-year-olds. 65 families in the UK were surveyed, and a sub-sample of 40 families also completed a remote child assessment session. (pdf)