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School reformers’ names are often forgotten. Except for John Dewey who died in 1952. His name continues to resonate among supporters and opponents of his ideas about school, society, curriculum, and teaching. But Dewey is an exception, not the rule. Save for historians of…
Over the past few years, I have posted quite some studies about the negative effect of noise on learning (check e.g. here and here). This new study suggests that traffic noise at schools has a detrimental effect on the development of working memory and attention in primary-school students. From the press release: Road traffic noise is… Read More The negative effect of traffic noise on cognitive development
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Jeffrey Young produces and hosts Ed Surge podcasts and is managing editor of EdSurge. He interviewed me in January 2022. Here is an edited version of that interview. It turns out emergency remote instruction is far from new. Back in 1937, when a polio…
Originally posted on 3-Star learning experiences:
Guest blog by Sofie Willox This article was originally published in Dutch in HR Magazine, March 2022. It discusses five dimensions that promote learning transfer based on our (Mirjam & Paul) book “Evidence-Informed Learning Design – Creating Training to improve Learning Design”. To what extent do people actually apply…
There is a new Best Evidence in Brief and this time I picked this study from this biweekly newsletter written up by Amanda Neitzel: Summer slide, or the loss of student learning progress over the summer months, is of concern to parents and educators. While summer school has been offered as a possible solution, it can be expensive… Read More Preventing summer slide through the mail (Best Evidence in Brief)
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India has 1.4 billion people. Of that total 250 million attend rural and urban schools about the same enrollment as China (2021). Consider that the U.S. schooled around 50 million students in the same year. India’s system of public and private schooling is governed…
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Mirjam Neelen & Paul A. Kirschner Before we dive in here, we need to give some credit to the person who inspired our approach and the style of this blog: Japke-D Bouma (Twitter handle: @japked). She’s a Dutch journalist who writes a regular column in NRC (a Dutch newspaper)…
I’ve written before about the imposter syndrome, the idea that a person can have any success is due to external circumstances or just luck and chance and people will find out soon. New research shows that even under real-life conditions the phenomenon can appear regardless of age, gender, and intelligence. In short: The Impostor Phenomenon… Read More New – depressing – research on the Impostor Phenomenon
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By Ruoyu Lian, Johns Hopkins University The use of parental text messaging to positively influence children’s educational behaviors has gained popularity. A recent study conducted by Catherine and colleagues hypothesized that a text message intervention using the MORE@Home app would be beneficial to enhancing parents’ engagement, and…
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T. Philip Nichols is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Baylor University. Antero Garcia is associate professor of education at Stanford University. The original article appeared in Ed Source, May 8, 2022. The recent news that billionaire Elon Musk plans to purchase…
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