Originally posted on Research Digest:
By Emily Reynolds Body image can be a tricky enough thing to navigate in adulthood: for young people, it can be even more difficult. Research suggests that adolescence is a “pivotal time” for the development of positive or negative body image — and that poor body image can in turn have…
Originally posted on Research Digest:
By guest blogger Rhi Willmot Is your mental library a haven of accurate and well-informed facts, or are there mistruths hiding on the shelves? It’s natural to assume that we update our beliefs in line with the most recent and well-established evidence. But what really happens to our views when a…
Originally posted on Robert Slavin's Blog:
I recently saw a 1954 video of B. F. Skinner showing off a classroom full of eager students using teaching machines. In it, Skinner gave all the usual reasons that teaching machines were soon going to be far superior to ordinary teaching: They were scientifically made to enable…
Di esta charla en Chile hace un mes y fue doblada al español. Puedes encontrar más videos de ResearchED en español e inglés aquí. I gave this talk in Chile a month ago and it was dubbed into Spanish. You can find more ResearchED videos both in Spanish and English here.
There is a new Best Evidence in Brief with – amongst others – this report: A new report from the Institute of Education Sciences has found that an intensive approach to helping principals improve their leadership practices did not improve student achievement or change principal practices as intended. The study looked at the effectiveness of a professional… Read More What role do principals play in improving teaching and student achievement? (Best Evidence in Brief)
I shared this updated list of the effect sizes of 250+ influences on student achievement already on my Dutch blog, but I think many readers of this blog will appreciate me sharing them here too. Some of the effect sizes became less enormous since the 2017 update, e.g. collective teacher efficacy and Teacher estimates of… Read More The update list of effect sizes by John Hattie, but…
It is topic often discussed, but the evidence is getting quite big: girls aren’t worse – or better – in mathematics than boys. The irony is that imho this study is relevant by adding support to previous findings, but the sample – as with many brain studies – is rather low. From the press release:… Read More Again: brains of girls and boys are similar, producing equal math ability (new study)
