It has something that has been shown again and again: Children in primary and secondary education have performed – on average! – worse during the pandemic Students in higher education often did better than before. But a new NBER working paper by Altindag et al begs to differ and warns that this could well have… Read More No, college students probably didn’t do better during the pandemic
I’m still busy reading the studies that I missed during my break, and this is certainly an important and depressing one as it shows that an alarming percentage of children and adolescents are experiencing a global-wide mental crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic From the press release: The UCalgary study is a meta-analysis, pooling together… Read More New meta-analysis: Depression and anxiety symptoms have doubled among young people during the pandemic
A lot of people associate social media and cell phones with stress and other negative consequences for young people, although we’ve learned from earlier research that social media usage is often a symptom rather than a cause. But we’ve also seen that social media can actually help, this new study confirms this but adds the… Read More Cell phones and social media can also help teens cope with stressful events, but how?
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New research shows that there are gender differences when it comes to fear about the impact of COVID-19. Men are more likely to be concerned about financial consequences from COVID-19 while women report greater fear and more negative expectations about health-related outcomes. From the press release: The researchers, Sheryl Ball and Alec Smith, conducted an… Read More Men and women worry really differently about the impact of COVID-19
For the past few years, I was heavily interested scientifically in Collective Teacher Efficacy but was surprised nobody talked about Collective Student Efficacy. So, I started working on a paper on this topic. Trying to find arguments in research why we should pay attention to this or not and so on. I mentioned briefly the… Read More Why I shouted ‘no’ to my computer yesterday… Collective Student Efficacy
I used to share interesting stuff I read somewhere on this blog. Maybe I should do this again more often. This article in Quanta Magazine is really worth your attention: But a brain map with neat borders is not just oversimplified — it’s misleading. “Scientists for over 100 years have searched fruitlessly for brain boundaries… Read More Very interesting read: The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does
I discovered this poster via a tweet by Steve Stewart-Williams. You can download the poster and more background information here at Geckoboard.
This is a study that when you hear the results you first are a bit surprised, but when you start to think about it, it makes perfect sense. Children don’t inherit all genes from their parents, but those non-inherit genes can have an important influence as they do influence parenting. From the press release: Funded… Read More Interesting: A child’s educational success depends also on the genes that they have *not* inherited from their parents
