Questions tagged [educational-psychology]
For questions about this field that studies how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations.
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What does cognitive theory say about metacognitive reading strategies such as "looking for the main idea"?
In his seminal essay Classroom Research and Cargo Cults E. D. Hirsch wrote:
It is dangerous to predict long-term benefits from short-term results. Random assignment research has shown short-term ...
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What is the correlation coefficient between household wealth and educational attainment?
Educational attainment being years of education. I'm looking for r or r^2. Preferably in a western, anglophone country like the US or England.
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What is the correlation between the level of education and number of friends?
I have heard, that a study was performed, maybe in Brazil, and it showed that a correlation was found – more educated people have less friends. I was unable to google this work. Maybe somebody here ...
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Relativeness of terminology and conceptual knowledge in Bloom's taxonomy?
In Bloom's Taxonomy, knowledge is divided into four categories: 1) factual knowledge, 2) conceptual knowledge, 3) procedural knowledge, 4) meta-cognitive knowledge.
Terminology is a type of factual ...
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Alternative metrics to assess test validity/reliability
I have two versions of calculating a score for a test (which assesses how well they perform a task). One takes into account the difficulty of the items, the other does not. These tests are ...
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What are standardized and scalable methods to assess free recall?
In cognitive psychology and education literature, free recall test is usually compared with recognition test (through multiple-choice questions) and the former is favored as a more reliable measure of ...
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At what age does logical reasoning typically develop?
Mathematics appears to be almost entirely neglected in early childhood learning. As both a mathematics teacher and father home-schooling his four-year-old daughter, I am particularly focused on ...
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When learning a subject by working on a problem set, what is the optimal amount of time to spend on a problem?
In STEM courses, students solve problems in problem sets, as a way to learn through practice. Answers are often provided for some problems (e.g., the odd numbered problems in a textbook) and not for ...
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Is there a reading comprehension theory that suggests simple reading questions are best solved via simple text analysis, and vice versa?
My main field is not Linguistics/reading comprehension so what I am asking might sound a bit silly or not make a lot of sense. My question could certainly be better-phrased.
Is there a theory in ...
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Are University Graduated WEIRD people psychologically different to Generally Educated WEIRD people?
A recent question was asking around the subject of WEIRD psychology [WEIRD standing for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic — an acronym seemingly coined by Henrich, et al (2010)] ...
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Psychology behind dumb child doing good in academics [closed]
This is my first question in this forum and hence forgive me if the question is amateurish. I was always interested in what a psychology expert will say about this.
Consider a boy who is dumb from ...
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Early STEM Education Impact
I'm looking to find studies that examine when STEM education is most critical (e.g. what years of early STEM education have a significant impact on college/uni-level students, as measured by their IQs/...
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What are the neuroscience research findings on the importance of breaks in cognitive function and specifically learning?
When I say breaks I mean breaks between periods of the same course, breaks between two distinct courses, single days of, weekends, couple days of, few days of, longer periods of holidays of duration ...
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Effectiveness of "non-focused" learning
Is anything known how effective is "non-focused" learning. For example when I am focused on something else (watching TV, doing work in the office) while listening to language learning material (words ...
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Does studying formal logic improve logical reasoning?
I am looking to see if there is any good empirical evidence or study that shows or suggests that studying formal logic, or maybe informal logic, would actually improve skills at logical reasoning (...
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