A review of a dozen recent studies reveals that to design good tests, teachers need to consider bias, rigor, and mindset.

Gender stereotypes have already begun taking root in students by primary school, resulting in fewer girls taking STEM subjects, according to researchers Laura Scholes and Sarah McDonald. In this article, they write about their research, which shows that these students will aspire to roles that are traditionally separated by gender.

Encouraging students is not enough, says a new study—you actually have to raise your ratio of praise to reprimands dramatically, and that might mean keeping track.

Blackout poetry can aid students' reading comprehension by asking them to cross out the words in an article, leaving only words that summarize the text or a poem, writes English and history teacher Megan Kelly. In this blog post, Kelly offers other ideas, including scrambled sections in which Kelly cuts an article into sections and…

Sources of stress and support.

Children with a chronic health condition perform below the basic academic requirements in literacy and numeracy compared to their peers, a study from UNSW Sydney and University of Sydney has found.

The coronavirus pandemic has increased stress and burnout for educators, but corporate wellness performance coaches Lauren Hodges and Phil Burton say a program they facilitated for teachers, education leaders and superintendents in California led to a 31% increase in self-perceived quality of life. In this blog post, they share insights into how educators can build…

The pandemic set off a great deal of expanding and contracting in the education sector. Some companies and services became obsolete without the availability of face-to-face experiences. Others found their footholds and took off. Outschool, a marketplace for small-group, live online classes for kids ages 3 to 18, certainly seems to have fallen into the…

Personalized education was already big pre-pandemic, but home schooling and digital instruction made more parents and teachers embrace the idea. With a shortage of human teachers, many schools jumped on the bandwagon of using technology that collects each child’s personal data and tailors content accordingly. Researchers, however, warn of three dangerous pitfalls.

“We know that teens’ use of social media increased during the pandemic, and along with this increase in time, we’ve seen more of both the positive and negative aspects of social media,” said Dr. Jacqueline Nesi, an assistant professor of psychology at Brown University who specializes in social media and adolescent development.

Trods manglende videnskabelig evidens er teorien om, at vi lærer bedst ved enten at se, høre, røre eller bruge kroppen, udbredt i Danmark. Selvom mange forskere er enige om at teorien om læringsstile er forkert, peger flere studier på, at den lever i bedste velgående blandt undervisere verden over.