Educational Psychology News

July 19, 2024

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Neighborhood Opportunities Influence Infant Development and Cognition

June 27, 2024 — Researchers find that growing up in neighborhoods with more educational and socioeconomic opportunities has a positive impact on infants' brain ...

Early Childhood Problems Linked to Persistent School Absenteeism

June 27, 2024 — Children who are not considered 'school ready' by their teachers are more than twice as likely to become persistently absent at some point in their education, according to a new ...

Can AI Learn Like Us?

June 20, 2024 — Scientists have developed a new, more energy-efficient way for AI algorithms to process data. His model may become the basis for a new generation of AI that learns like we do. Notably, these findings may also lend support to neuroscience theories ...

'Time Cells' in the Brain Are Critical for Complex Learning, Study Shows

June 19, 2024 — They're more than a simple clock, and understanding these cells' activity could ultimately aid in early detection of neurodegenerative ...

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AI Generated Exam Answers Go Undetected in Real-World Blind Test

June 26, 2024 — Experienced exam markers may struggle to spot answers generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI), researchers have ...

Standardized Protocols Help Hospitals Treat Strokes Faster

June 24, 2024 — Research illustrates that American Heart Association and American Stroke Association guidelines are effective at speeding up hospitals' response times for stroke treatment and can be mastered even by ...

Rethinking English Essay Scores: The Argument for Argument Over Grammar

June 18, 2024 — To get high scores at essay writing tests, learners of English as a foreign language need to focus on good arguments more than on complex grammar. The finding challenges conventional approaches to ...

Simplicity Versus Adaptability: Understanding the Balance Between Habitual and Goal-Directed Behaviors

June 17, 2024 — Scientists have proposed a new AI method in which systems of habitual and goal-directed behaviors learn to help each other. Through computer ...

Vitamin B6: New Compound Delays Degradation

June 14, 2024 — A low vitamin B6 level has negative effects on brain performance. A research team has now found a way to delay the degradation of the ...

Does Having a Child With Low Birth Weight Increase a Person's Risk of Dementia?

June 12, 2024 — People who give birth to infants less than 5.5 pounds may be more likely to have memory and thinking problems later in life than people who give ...

Just Thinking About a Location Activates Mental Maps in the Brain

June 12, 2024 — Researchers found that mental representations known as cognitive maps, located in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, are activated when the brain performs mental simulations of a navigational ...

Online Professional Education Works for Complex Topics

June 7, 2024 — Online education is effective for teaching complicated topics like quantum information science (QIS) to high school science educators, according to a new ...

Babies Use 'Helpless' Infant Period to Learn Powerful Foundation Models, Just Like ChatGPT

June 5, 2024 — Babies' brains are not as immature as previously thought, rather they are using the period of postnatal 'helplessness' to learn powerful foundation ...

Higher Blood Pressure Is Associated With Poorer Cognition in Adolescence

June 5, 2024 — Adolescents with elevated blood pressure and arterial stiffness may experience poorer cognitive functions, according to a recent study. Young people with higher blood pressure performed worse, ...

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Chatbot Iris Offers Students Individual Support

July 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed the chatbot Iris, which offers informatics students personalized assistance with programming assignments. A study has now confirmed the chatbot's success: Iris ...

Clever Pupils Don't Need to Attend Academically Selective Schools to Thrive, Study Finds

July 4, 2024 — New findings challenge the idea that academically selective schools are necessary for clever pupils to achieve good ...

Study Provides Insights Into the Use of Decodable Texts in Early Reading Instruction

June 26, 2024 — Reading comprehension is crucial for success in school and society but can be difficult for children initially. Decodable texts are widely believed to help by focusing on taught letter-sound ...

Younger Children in School Year Are More Commonly Diagnosed With ADHD Than Their Older Classmates, Says New Study

June 6, 2024 — New research has found that teachers may be attributing signs of age-related immaturity in children, to conditions such as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Autism Spectrum Disorder ...

Children's Visual Experience May Hold Key to Better Computer Vision Training

May 31, 2024 — A novel, human-inspired approach to training artificial intelligence (AI) systems to identify objects and navigate their surroundings could set the stage for the development of more advanced AI ...

In the Brain at Rest, Neurons Rehearse Future Experience

May 30, 2024 — New research sheds light on how individual neurons in the hippocampus of rats stabilize and tune spatial representations during periods of rest following the animals' first time running a maze, ...

The AI Paradox: Building Creativity to Protect Against AI

May 30, 2024 — Cultivating creativity in schools is vital for a future driven by artificial intelligence (AI). But while teachers embrace creativity as an essential 21st century skill, a lack of valid and reliable ...

Research Finds Improving AI Large Language Models Helps Better Align With Human Brain Activity

May 28, 2024 — With generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) transforming the social interaction landscape in recent years, large language models (LLMs), which use deep-learning algorithms to train GenAI ...

Does It Matter If Your Kids Listen to You? When Adolescents Reject Mom's Advice, It Still Helps Them Cope

May 23, 2024 — Parents are often eager to give their adolescent children advice about school problems, but they may find that youth are less than receptive to their words of wisdom. However, kids who don't ...

Children Struggling at School Entry More Likely to Face Disadvantage at Age 16-17

May 23, 2024 — Children who were behind in their development at age 4-5 were almost three times as likely to have been out of education, employment, or training at age 16-17, analysis of pupil data has ...

Access to Gardens and Citizen Science Helps Encourage Conservation Among Children, Study Shows

May 15, 2024 — Access to gardens and citizen science projects at school can help promote pro-conservation behaviour among pupils, a new study ...

The Crystallization of Memory: Study Reveals How Practice Forms New Memory Pathways in the Brain

May 15, 2024 — A new study has shown that repetitive practice not only is helpful in improving skills but also leads to profound changes in the brain's memory ...

Chimps Learn and Improve Tool-Using Skills Even as Adults, Study Finds

May 7, 2024 — Chimpanzees continue to learn and hone their skills well into adulthood, a capacity that might be essential for the evolution of complex and varied tool use, according to a new ...

Self-Critical Perfectionism Gnaws on Students' Well-Being Already in Lower Secondary School

May 6, 2024 — A new study among ninth-graders attending lower secondary school in Swedish-speaking areas of Finland identified four perfectionistic profiles with varying associations with students' ...

Losing Keys and Everyday Items 'Not Always Sign of Poor Memory'

May 1, 2024 — The mysteries of how memory works are explained in a new book that suggests anyone can boost their powers of recall -- and that losing your keys is ...

Intervention Based on Science of Reading, Math Boosts Comprehension, Word Problem-Solving Skills

Apr. 29, 2024 — Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Test Reveals Mice Think Like Babies

Apr. 26, 2024 — Are mice clever enough to be strategic? A neuroscientist who studies learning in humans and animals, and who has long worked with mice, wondered why rodents often performed poorly in tests when they ...

Computer Game in School Made Students Better at Detecting Fake News

Apr. 24, 2024 — A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading ...

Japan's Premodern Concept of Nature at Root of Distinctive Mindset in Early Childhood Education

Apr. 22, 2024 — Observers of Japanese early childhood education and care have pointed to the mindset of educators watching over and waiting on preschoolers as being an intriguing tendency. This mimamoru approach has ...

Gender Stereotypes in Schools Impact on Girls and Boys With Mental Health Difficulties, Study Finds

Apr. 17, 2024 — Gender stereotypes mean that girls can be celebrated for their emotional openness and maturity in school, while boys are seen as likely to mask their emotional distress through silence or disruptive ...