https://phys.org/science-news/education en-us Phys.org provides latest news on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education The education of care-experienced children should be redefined to include a much broader range of activities to better support their development and success, a new study says. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-broaden-definition-children-urges.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:11:18 EDT news610211475 Researchers are more likely to pen scientific papers with co-authors of the same gender, a pattern that cannot be simply explained by the varying gender representation across scientific disciplines and time, according to joint research from Cornell and the University of Washington. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-same-gender-co-authors.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:59:58 EDT news610192796 Research from Monash University shows that young people's career indecision and uncertainty can lead to helplessness, depression, stress, lack of purpose and despair. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-harnessing-power-career-conversations-combating.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 02 Aug 2023 08:49:13 EDT news610184949 The Department of Didactics of Mathematics, Experimental and Social Sciences has analyzed the knowledge of birds of secondary school students, and their attitude towards conservation. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-analysis-secondary-school-students-difficulty.html Education Wed, 02 Aug 2023 08:13:14 EDT news610182791 Youth involved in community-based activism over time become better critical thinkers and more politically active, according to a new University of Michigan study. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-teens-engaged-critical-thinkers.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 01 Aug 2023 17:00:33 EDT news610128028 The public funding of science is responsible for many of the biomedical and other scientific breakthroughs on which our lives depend. However, the process through which funding decisions are made, the peer review of grant proposals, has been historically understudied, and current approaches can lead to undesirable outcomes. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-score-approach-grant.html Economics & Business Education Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:55:03 EDT news610127702 We live at a time when universities and colleges are facing multiplying crises, pressures and changes. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-ways-higher-post-pandemic-post-ai-era.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:18:07 EDT news610111085 Pursuing a career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has historically required women to confront significant gender bias within the world of academia. But it's important to update our perceptions of this gender bias so that women are not needlessly discouraged from pursuing these careers today, according to findings by Stephen J. Ceci (Cornell University), Shulamit Kahn (Boston University), and Wendy M. Williams (Cornell University), published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-academia-gender-fair-women-adversarial-analysis.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:52:50 EDT news610041166 Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach that connects academic researchers with community partners to inform project development. Where traditional research is often done "to" people, treating them as subjects with no agency, CBPR is a cooperative process incorporating the knowledge and direction of community members. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-explores-opportunities-community-participatory.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:55:04 EDT news610037701 Are you thinking about learning a language? Perhaps you've decided that it's time to dust off your classroom French. Maybe you're planning a trip to Japan and feel like you should make the effort to learn the basics, or work is sending you to the Cairo office for a year and you'll need Arabic. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-language.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:50:01 EDT news610029272 When Iowa State University switched from in-person to remote learning halfway through the spring semester of 2020, psychology professor Jason Chan was worried. Would unsupervised, online exams unleash rampant cheating? https://phys.org/news/2023-07-evidence-online-unsupervised-exams.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 31 Jul 2023 11:11:31 EDT news610020686 ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) platform launched by research company Open AI, can write an essay in response to a short prompt. It can perform mathematical equations—and show its working. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-chatgpt-isnt-death-homeworkjust-opportunity.html Education Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:02:03 EDT news609764521 My husband and I spent a late August day several years ago settling in our oldest child, Andrew, for the start of his first year at college. We went to Walmart to buy a mini fridge and rug. We hung posters above his bed. We attended the obligatory goodbye family lunch before heading to our car to return to a slightly quieter house. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-opinion-hazing-people-behavior-redefine.html Social Sciences Education Fri, 28 Jul 2023 11:50:04 EDT news609763801 North Carolina State University researchers recently found that a program designed to get Girl Scouts involved in citizen science—programs where members of the public can participate in real scientific research—not only taught girls about the process of science, but also motivated them to tackle scientific or environmental problems in their communities. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-citizen-science-kids-local-action.html Education Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:43:04 EDT news609694982 Young people around the world—including Australia—will feel the fallout of the COVID pandemic for years to come, say the University of the Sunshine Coast researchers behind a new global resource to support them. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-worst-pandemic-kids.html Education Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:54:29 EDT news609688464 Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the historical evolution of the world's languages share a common cognitive foundation—a core knowledge base where patterns of children's language innovation can predict patterns of language evolution, and vice versa. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-common-cognitive-foundation-child-language.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:00:01 EDT news609683338 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released a report highlighting the many challenges of the growing presence of technology in education. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-cellphones-classrooms-quick-student-well-being.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:00:01 EDT news609678052 Should smartphones be allowed in classrooms? A new report from UNESCO, the education arm of the United Nations, raises questions about the practice. Though smartphones can be used for educational purposes, the report says the devices also disrupt classroom learning, expose students to cyberbullying and can compromise students' privacy. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-smartphones-classrooms-scholars.html Education Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:50:01 EDT news609677082 A new study found that teachers who left low-performing K-12 public schools in Tennessee as part of schoolwide turnaround reforms had positive impacts on test scores in the schools that took them in, and they were more likely to collaborate. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-teachers-turnaround-schools-positive-effects.html Economics & Business Education Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:45:18 EDT news609677112 Pupils in state secondary schools in England are much more likely to be excluded if they have a history of receiving social care or special educational needs services, finds a new study by UCL researchers. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-children-history-social-school-exclusion.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:00:01 EDT news609588784 Public schools routinely have a police officer in the building to deescalate and prevent violence. A new study led by faculty from the University at Albany's Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy examined how these school resource officers, or SROs, affect school and student outcomes. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-police-schools-results-harsher-discipline.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:10:06 EDT news609599401 When students at Hughes STEM High School in Cincinnati were asked back in 2016 what part of their school they'd like to improve, they identified Coy Field—an athletic field they use for baseball, softball, track and football. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-urban-overlooked-career-ways.html Education Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:01:04 EDT news609595261 Heavy reliance on technology in education may be unproductive, or even detrimental, if it interferes with the acquisition of basic skills such as reading, the UN warned on Wednesday. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-excessive-tech-classrooms.html Education Wed, 26 Jul 2023 08:51:52 EDT news609580273 Politicians across parties are proposing ways to promote vocational education in England. Rishi Sunak has pledged to limit "rip-off" university courses and boost apprenticeships—diverting school students away from university and towards vocational education. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-academic-vocational-students-radical-equal.html Education Political science Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:58:31 EDT news609508708 It is really important for students to see the human side of their teachers. They need to see them as real and caring people. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-student-teachers-feedback-video.html Education Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:00:03 EDT news609501601 Last week, the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) published an editorial to define appropriate and inappropriate uses of artificial intelligence technology in the "preparation and review of manuscripts being considered for publication." https://phys.org/news/2023-07-journal-editors-ai-science-publishing.html Other Education Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:09:10 EDT news609437347 In the story of Charles Darwin, there are two often-omitted footnotes: He was taught by a Black former enslaved man, John Edmonstone, and he was assisted in his groundbreaking research by a Black servant, Syms Covington. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-paper-incorporating-anti-racism-life-sciences.html Education Political science Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:05:12 EDT news609433507 SUTD researchers delve into the bilingual experience and its impact on children's context-sensitive perception of trust, offering insights into how language diversity can enrich and benefit children's social-cognitive development. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-bilingualism-catalyst-social-children.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:38:04 EDT news609428281 As New South Wales works hard to attract new teachers, and to keep them in the profession. Research by UNSW Sydney's Rebecca Collie into teacher well-being offers some solutions. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-game-embedding-early-career-teachers.html Education Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:21:23 EDT news609420079 Peter Belmi, who earned his Ph.D. at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2015, was the first in his family to attend college. Today he's a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. Yet when some of his graduating students who were also "first-gens" asked if they should mention that fact in their job applications, Belmi was hesitant. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-first-gen-college-grads-bias-job.html Economics & Business Education Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:26:05 EDT news609416761