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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As the legislative election in France approached this summer, a research team decided to reach out to hundreds of citizens to interview them about their views on key issues. But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher — it was an AI chatbot.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Research shows that everybody finds things like that annoying, but if you're a first-generation college student, those start to trigger worries about belonging, because there's a belonging uncertainty there,” he says. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings.

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MAY 17, 2024

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Instead, we're taking the researchers’ questions to that data. A lot of the studies are about freshman college kids, right?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That job has become more difficult in recent years, according to numerous surveys , research studies and EdSurge interviews, as the last few classes of kindergarteners have shown up lacking some of the basic skills and competencies that educators and school leaders had previously come to expect.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors. A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. But the researcher says he has heard from hundreds of teachers who have reported improvements in test scores. How did that go? Can we get more students thinking?

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JUNE 9, 2022

Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. using research authentically. Give students time to research, but not too much time. Reading, writing, research, speaking/listening.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Columbia University’s Science of Learning Research Initiative (SOLER), our work is dedicated to examining the academic experience of our students and instructors through a scientific lens. To inform these conversations, observational research — without intervention — is the necessary foundation.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

Entrepreneurs and developers try to make the best possible drug to treat students, while administrators and researchers (myself included) stand guard, testing and validating the treatments. This doesn’t mean this kind of research should stop. Within this technocentrist frame, education is sick and edtech is like medicine.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

A group that is often studied but left out of conversations, we wanted to intentionally facilitate spaces for Black women across and outside the gender spectrum and learn more about their experiences in this climate, as much recent research covers pre-pandemic educator experiences. A Collaborative, Community-Based Research Project.in

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MAY 9, 2024

That ultimately works against what researchers say is one of the most important pillars of a school’s success: the well-being of its teachers. The Wellbeing Research Centre] really are helping us to understand the science behind well-being.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

In recent years, a growing body of research has looked at the impact of college ‘deserts’ — sometimes defined as an area where people live more than a 30-minute drive to a campus — and found that those residing close to a college are more likely to attend.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

169 tech-centric situations—tech topics most important to your teaching as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations Today’s tip: Evaluate websites Category: Parents When students use the internet to research a topic, likely they get hundreds—or thousands—of possible resources.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

With that in mind, there is one guideline that will help even novice researchers find reliable sources: the extension. Historically, focused on research, study, and education.org U.S. Here are the most popular extensions in order of reliability, dependability, and trustworthiness: gov Published by the government and non-military.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Structured Approach: Students present on three topics across grading periods, emphasizing quick research. Key Insights Student-Centered Learning: This approach prioritizes student engagement and self-directed research, making learning enjoyable and effective.

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2023

Absolutely, say a pair of researchers from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. They published a research paper on the use of “makerspace therapy” by graduate counseling students in 2021. That tracks with what Canadian researchers found in an exploratory study on the use of makerspaces to teach mindfulness to fourth graders.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is not lost upon me that schools are complex organizations with a wide variety of experiences, yet there were many similarities shared among my peers who co-created the healing circles with EdSurge Research and the Abolitionist Teaching Network. Research by Barbara C. Professor of public health and African American Studies David R.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

As the research leads on the project, we drew on literature and educator focus groups to investigate how technology could be leveraged most effectively in instruction, the barriers to adoption, and the strategies that could best support teachers in adopting effective instructional practices. Internet access has also improved substantially.

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MAY 16, 2024

Thus, the research and writing process for a dissertation may be overwhelming and time-consuming. Completing one research paper might take you two or more months. Therefore, dissertation writing requires substantial research. It helps you avoid stress and burnout while working on your research paper.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A new book by one of those AI pioneers digs into the origins of ChatGPT and the intersection of research on how the brain works and building new large language models for AI. Listen to our conversation with Sejnowski on this week’s EdSurge Podcast, where he describes research to more fully simulate human brains.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As the math educator in residence at Just Equations, a nonprofit focused on the intersection of math and equity, I research math education and I think a lot about my years in the classroom. In one of the lessons , students accessed the Agriculture Department’s Food Access Research Atlas to locate food deserts in their city.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For the researchers, that means that absenteeism threatens to aggravate the teacher shortage. Previous research from one of the authors has tried to show that missing class can negatively impact what teachers think about absent students, leading them to view those students as lacking social skills and being less academically capable.

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JULY 30, 2024

Begin by researching universities and their requirements during your junior year. Research and Choose the Right Universities It’s crucial to choose universities that align with your academic goals, interests, and values. Start early, stay organized, and make informed decisions based on thorough research.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

For the study, researchers interviewed 6,015 enrolled students, 5,012 formerly enrolled students who never completed their program and 3,005 adults who never enrolled in higher education. How startlingly pressing concerns over mental health and well-being are for college enrollment and participation, according to one of the researchers.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu. While offering courses is a key first step, says Cameron Lee Conrad, a University of Maryland doctoral student who also worked on the study, the research points to the importance of encouraging a broader mix of students to actually take the CS courses.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

New research suggests one way to consider the question: by looking at how the mix of students in a given course affects their grades. Researchers were able to look through grades for every course taken by students of different personal backgrounds. The study was conducted using administrative data from 20 colleges.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

As he visited school computer labs for one research project, he says, “I found that a lot of the kids, they alt-tab off the education program and start watching YouTube for an hour.” That’s perhaps an extreme example, Hedman admits, but he says that lack of testing really shows when students are given the materials.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“News literacy is fundamental to preparing students to become active, critically thinking members of our civic life — which should be one of the primary goals of a public education,” Kim Bowman, News Literacy Project senior research manager and author of the report, said in an email interview. “If

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. Once implemented, researchers will also collect data and study the curriculum’s impact using the same methods as in previous studies.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

The dearth of bilingual teachers is especially counterintuitive in Texas, where Gauna is a professor and where she conducted a qualitative research study on what she calls the “The Leaking Spanish Bilingual Education Teacher Pipeline.” Esmeralda told researchers. “I So why is there a shortage of these educators? Say it in English!”

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JULY 8, 2024

According to the research report, “teacher perceptions of students’ academic abilities can influence outcomes and can indeed shape teachers’ behaviors towards those students.” But there’s some reason for caution in drawing too many conclusions from this research, including that the study is based on data from before the pandemic.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

46 lessons. 46 projects.

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MAY 13, 2024

In partnership with researchers at Vanderbilt University, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), a nonprofit that works to improve public education across 16 states in the Southeast, has been examining the next generation’s interest in the teaching profession and has published their findings in a report released in April.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2024

While it’s true that young people are increasingly struggling with mental health issues at the same time social media usage is ballooning, today’s available research simply hasn’t found one of those to be the driving force behind the other — in sum, correlation does not equal causation. While the U.S.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Most people focus on its impact on school research, lesson plans–that sort–but another piece isn’t considered often enough: its impact on student mental health. Generative AI is an exploding influence in education with lots of potential but unknown outcomes.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

The typical teacher works a median of 54 hours a week, according to a nationally representative survey from 2022 administered by the EdWeek Research Center. The EdWeek Research Center survey found that teachers want to spend more time on instruction and less time doing administrative tasks or monitoring the hallways.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Research skills promote inquiry and curiosity in students. Encouraging research and inquiry through dedicated projects like Genius Hour fosters a sense of ownership in learning, allowing students to pursue their interests and develop critical thinking skills. Keyboarding skills are essential for students in a technology-driven world.

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