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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How is Reading Without Understanding of Its Language Processed in the Brain
As an author of a comprehensive book that discusses many of the processes involved in teaching and learning Hebrew reading, I am currently making a major revision and would like to find out more ...
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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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In a class room setting, why do people look at you when you are asking a question?
Picture this scenario:
You are a student enrolled in a large class
You arrived slightly late to the class, so you are sitting at the back of the class
You raise your hands to ask the teacher a ...
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How do Terence Tao's "three stages of rigorousness" relate to cognitive science? [closed]
This is an excerpt from There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs of Terrence Tao:
The “pre-rigorous” stage, in which mathematics is taught in an informal, intuitive manner, based on ...
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Which is easier for human perception: type of variable before or after its name?
In some programming languages type of variable goes before it's name.
In another - name goes first and then type.
For example if I declare string:
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What is the name of the effect whereby learning past a level increases mastery of that level?
A post in Professor Doom's blog contains the following exchange:
Pitchman: “What we know for sure is, the students who score high
enough for College Algebra usually took courses past College ...
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Does learning (to play) music increase IQ?
In one fairly cited study by E. Glenn Schellenberg (~800 citations in Google Scholar) we find that
Compared with children in the control groups, children in the music groups exhibited greater ...
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Discovery Learning vs. Inductive Learning vs. Active Learning vs. Engaged Learning [duplicate]
Discovery learning: Novak and Cañas (2008) define discovery learning as a type of learning in which the "individual discerns patterns or regularities in events or objects and recognizes these as the ...
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What is the best time-effective study technique? [duplicate]
What is the most effective way to study? For instance, assume a student has the following 4 classes in parallel:
1- C++ & Data-structure
2- Logic Design
3- Linear Algebra
4- Integration
Should ...
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Learning by listening versus learning by reading
I would like to know whether there is a study in psychology which compares the effectiveness of learning by reading versus learning by listening.
I would assume learning by reading is better because ...
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The Art of Teaching: What are the most effective & proven methods for successfully imparting a concept/idea to another
I'm aware this is a bit of a general question & subjectively broad. It's that way on purpose. It felt like cogsci was the best place for this question and I couldn't find anything really like it ...
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Active Learning vs. Engaged Learning
I have seen both of these in different research publications, but after searching for a while, I was not able to find the difference. I'll appreciate it if you explain the difference and give me some ...
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Is there research on effectiveness of teaching with high extraneous cognitive load?
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While researching a particular author's mathematical exposition, I found out (directly from a primary source) that the author was probably intentionally using overly complex syntax. ...
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What does "access consciousness" mean? [closed]
These emotional interventions, which allow contact to be selected faster by the attention mechanism for broadcasting by access consciousness, also allow the various aforementioned CELTS' learning ...
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Studies about learning terms in your native language?
I've been thinking about how much time do the Czech biology teachers spend just teaching the Czech terms for the organisms which they probably won't encounter again with, considering the fact that ...
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What specific studies are there about looking up answers for non-credit assignments? [closed]
Are there (psychology) studies you've come across that are about how students perform after looking up certain answers--not all answers--for homework that is not graded? (I do not mean students who ...
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Can the big five personality dimensions be trained/enhanced?
Are there established methods to, say, enhance someone's conscientiousness or agreeableness? In particular, since it seems there's evidence linking positive relationship between the big five to ...
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What is the optimal mean correct on a multiple choice test in order to maximise the measurement of individual differences?
What is the optimal mean correct on a multiple choice test item in order to maximise the measurement of individual differences?
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How to help relieve test-anxiety in others
I teach, as a layman, young adult students who mostly try to get a degree part-time whilst juggling full-time jobs and small crumbs of left-overs of a private life.
As it is hard for them to do rock-...
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Effects of Game-based Learning on Motivation for Learning
I have already asked this question here, but I did not receive my answer. I found this site a more appropriate place to ask it.
I found many studies discovering the impacts of game-based learning on ...
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Do "overview" sections increase learning outcome?
Suppose a math textbook contains an overview chapter for each part of the textbook. The intent of those overview chapters is to motivate and introduce the new mathematical concepts which will be ...
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Ground a student survey in academic literature
I'm planning to do a survey with students (age around 16) with questions/answer-possibilities that have been 'proven' to be significant indicators of student success/good grades. So, I'm not really ...
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Is there any psychometrics researches about the relationship between difficulty and grade distribution?
Is there any psychometrics researches about the relationship between difficulty and grade distribution in differnt college courses titles?
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How to foster an environment for appreciation
I'm a teacher at a highschool and currently we've been working on projects that are supposed to make the kids appreciate those around them especially the other teachers and workers at the school. ...
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What is the current status of neuroeducation? [closed]
How can we apply the cognitive neuroscience in the classroom?
What is a good general reference discussing the current status of neuroeducation?
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Do unschooled persons think differently from us (schooled persons)? How?
Through past experiences, I am convinced that "unschooled communities" such as tribals, nomads, cattle-herders, etc. (and persons belonging to such communities) have very different ways of thinking ...
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Which intervention improves the ability to remember names the most?
Is there research about psychological interventions to help the average person remember names? If so, which intervention or interventions have the best evidence base to support them?
Are there good ...
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In what areas is kindergarten most effective developmentally?
I expect that state-funded kindergarten and pre-kindergarten would be most effective in areas where there is no state-funded day-care. Additionally, I would expect it to be most beneficial to the ...
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Comparison of assessments of cognitive skills in children
What test is better in terms of its usability and informativeness - WISC-IV (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) or BAS (British Ability Scales)?
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Tests of Semantic Memory suitable for 10 to 18 year old
I'm trying to find a test of semantic memory for students.
We're working on a programme to explore the impacts of exposure to nature on a student's academic abilities (hoping to pique teachers ...
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Does sensory deprivation affect cognitive abilities?
I am wondering if the loss of vision or hearing early in life (say, before the age of 14 years) affects cognitive abilities later in life? I would imagine that as a group, early-blind or early-deaf ...
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Does thinking out loud negatively affect one's ability to think internally?
I'm a professional programmer, and I also practice math. During both, I constantly talk out loud, even for simple problems. However, when I'm around other people I suppress the talking and I feel like ...
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Ability to learn math and age of children [closed]
Is age of children strongly related to ability to learn various mathematical topics (e.g., percentages, common fractions)? I ask because many students in the elementary grades struggle with math ...
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Are good students truly good at all things?
Source: 'Putting a Bolder Face on Google' By LAURA M. HOLSON
At a recent personnel meeting, she homes in on grade-point averages and SAT scores to narrow a list of candidates, many having graduated ...
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Psychology of intelligence [duplicate]
I studied some cognitive psychology of problem solving. But I havent studied the psychology of intelligence in depth.
I wanted to ask, to what extent do IQ/psychometric tests predict academic ...
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How do features of the work environment such as type of pen or color of paper influence productivity and workplace well-being?
Background: Recently I have been doing mathematics a whole lot,and I have noticed that my output varies wildly from many external factors,but mostly it is the enviorment I am working in. Namely one of ...
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