https://phys.org/science-news/education en-us Phys.org provides latest news on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education 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 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 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 English serves as a convenient, common language for science. However, this practice poses insurmountable barriers to those whose first language is not English—the majority of people around the world. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-non-native-english-speaker-science.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:00:01 EDT news608893822 A new study from the University of Georgia aims to improve how we evaluate children's creativity through human ratings and through artificial intelligence. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-ai-childhood-creativity.html Education Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:25:06 EDT news607872301 When asked to draw their local wildlife, 401 UK schoolchildren aged seven to 11 most commonly drew mammals and birds, while amphibians and reptiles appeared in the fewest drawings, suggesting imbalances in children's ecological awareness. Kate Howlett and Edgar Turner of the University of Cambridge, UK, present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-children-nature-reveal-focus-mammals.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 05 Jul 2023 14:00:04 EDT news607766307 As part of their work, educators are often exposed to various stressful events, including violence between students or towards teachers, sexual assault and suicidal behavior, as well as death or illness of students or their family members. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-cognitive-flexibility-moderates-teacher-stress.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 03 Jul 2023 16:51:43 EDT news607621897 If students have poor academic results early in school, do they continue to fall further and further behind as they move through their education? https://phys.org/news/2023-06-australian-students-primary-school-high.html Education Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:21:22 EDT news607342877 Climbing trees, making mud pies, or simply playing outside, parents and educators know that being in nature is an important part of every childhood. But when it comes to messy or risky play, it's a whole different story according to new research from the University of South Australia. The findings are published in the journal PLOS ONE. https://phys.org/news/2023-06-adults-board-messy-nature-play.html Social Sciences Education Fri, 30 Jun 2023 09:18:47 EDT news607335522 Children do better at math when music is a key part of their lessons, an analysis of almost 50 years of research on the topic has revealed. https://phys.org/news/2023-06-combining-math-music-higher-scores.html Mathematics Education Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:01 EDT news607180274 Academic fields valuing brilliance are less welcoming to women: Fewer women enter and more women leave these fields, partly due to prevalent gender stereotypes, shows a new analysis of 30 disciplines by an international team of researchers. https://phys.org/news/2023-06-academic-fields-valuing-brilliance-women.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:21:03 EDT news606666061 Research funding determines the course of science and thus shapes future knowledge. However, funding allocation is inherently biased, non-optimal, and costly. Researchers from the University of Lübeck in Germany and other German research institutions propose a new way to restructure grant allocation processes that include an initial lottery for researchers to submit funding applications, followed by a second phase of evaluation and funding with a higher acceptance rate. https://phys.org/news/2023-06-grant-allocation.html Economics & Business Education Thu, 22 Jun 2023 11:00:10 EDT news606646478 Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty have more in common than their origins as classic fairy tale figures and, now, part of Disney's famous roster of characters. Their fairy tales are also full of gender bias and stereotypes, according to literature scholars––and now AI. https://phys.org/news/2023-06-fairy-tales-fair-ai-gender.html Social Sciences Education Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:42:14 EDT news604928529 How does competition influence moral behavior? Studies have so far found evidence for both a negative and a positive influence of competition on moral behavior. Researchers from Innsbruck, Vienna, Stockholm and Amsterdam are using this unanswered question in a meta-study to investigate the extent to which different study designs can be responsible for variability in scientific results. The study was recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). https://phys.org/news/2023-05-morality-competition-science.html Economics & Business Education Wed, 31 May 2023 12:33:03 EDT news604755181 According to a study by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the Eurecat technology center and the Autonomous University of Madrid, published in PLOS ONE, students worked more continuously during the pandemic, which led to an improvement in their results. https://phys.org/news/2023-05-ai-habit-widespread-lockdown.html Education Tue, 30 May 2023 11:40:04 EDT news604665602 In 2021, Facebook made "metaverse" the buzziest word on the web, rebranding itself as Meta and announcing a plan to build "a set of interconnected digital spaces that lets you do things you can't do in the physical world." Since then, the metaverse has been called many different things. Some say it is the "future of the internet." Others call it "an amorphous concept that no one really wants." https://phys.org/news/2023-05-metaverse-science.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 25 May 2023 12:30:00 EDT news604236595 Illustrations of scientific experiments play a fundamental role in both science education and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the general public. Confirming the adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words," these depictions of famous experiments remain in the minds of those who study them and become definitive versions of the scientific process. Archimedes in the bath discovering the law of buoyancy; Newton refracting sunlight with a prism and defining the principles of modern optics; Mendel cultivating peas and laying the foundations of genetics—these are just a few well-known examples. https://phys.org/news/2023-05-errors-famous-scientific.html Education Mon, 22 May 2023 16:40:33 EDT news603992430 A small team of economists from Harvard University, Sihlquai 10, Adliswil, Brown University, and the London Business School has found differences in education level attainment across Africa based at least in part on religion. In their paper published the journal Nature, the group describes how they used data collected via censuses in multiple countries in Africa to learn more about whether education levels in Africa are impacted by religious affiliation. https://phys.org/news/2023-05-census-differences-africa-based-religion.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 22 May 2023 11:08:09 EDT news603972485 Post-secondary education (PSE) has a potential for improving the IQ of adults with mild intellectual disability (ID), according to a new Bar-Ilan University study. https://phys.org/news/2023-05-postsecondary-university-iq-adult-students.html Education Mon, 15 May 2023 17:01:55 EDT news603388911 Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming education, in both worrisome and beneficial ways. On the positive side of the ledger, new research shows how AI can help improve the way instructors engage with their students, by way of a cutting-edge tool that provides feedback on their interactions in class. https://phys.org/news/2023-05-feedback-ai-driven-tool.html Education Mon, 08 May 2023 14:02:29 EDT news602773334 Giving new college students opportunities to reflect on the ways science, technology, engineering and math can affect their lives makes them more likely to remain in degree programs in STEM fields, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. https://phys.org/news/2023-05-students-science-real-world-stem.html Education Tue, 02 May 2023 13:00:03 EDT news602250835 A Vanderbilt University Medical Center-led team has developed a scale to measure trustworthiness in biomedical research among minority populations—a landmark tool for researchers to use to improve their own trustworthiness, and thus participation in research. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-team-scale-rebalance-burden-science.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:56:01 EDT news601818958 While some ambitious high school students may load up on extracurricular activities to help them get into college, a new study suggests they may be trying too hard. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-extracurricular.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:55:50 EDT news601563342 A new study finds that first-generation college graduates are more likely to come from families that have higher incomes and more resources than families in which neither parents nor children graduate from college. The study highlights the challenges facing young people who want to attend college, as well as how difficult it is for individuals to move up the socioeconomic ladder. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-first-gen-college-grad-money.html Social Sciences Education Fri, 21 Apr 2023 12:08:58 EDT news601297734 Last month, OpenAI launched its newest AI chatbot product, GPT-4. According to the folks at OpenAI, the bot, which uses machine learning to generate natural language text, passed the bar exam with a score in the 90th percentile, passed 13 of 15 AP exams, and got a nearly perfect score on the GRE Verbal test. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-chatgpt-humans-accounting.html Economics & Business Education Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:15:03 EDT news601229701 Learning science experts from Carnegie Mellon University's Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) wanted to know why some students learn faster than others. They hoped to identify fast learners, study them and develop techniques that could help students understand new concepts quickly. What they found was surprising: In the right conditions, people learn at a remarkably similar rate. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-myth-fast-learner.html Education Wed, 19 Apr 2023 11:44:37 EDT news601123473 Rates of school discipline fluctuate widely and predictably throughout a school year and increase significantly faster for Black students than for their white counterparts, University of California, Berkeley, researchers have found. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-school-discipline.html Education Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:30:27 EDT news601011020 Auditing practices from the finance industry can be adapted to identify academic fraud, according to new research by the University of St Andrews. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-accountants-scientists.html Mathematics Education Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:54:04 EDT news600620042 Students whose brainwaves are more in sync with their classmates and teacher are likely to learn better than those lacking this "brain-to-brain synchrony," shows a new study by a team of psychology and education researchers. The findings, which appear in the journal Psychological Science, offer new insights into the learning process. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-sync-brainwaves.html Education Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:00:12 EDT news600604256 The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional subscriptions (paywall), and how to best judge the integrity of a publication. https://phys.org/news/2023-03-death-access-mega-journals.html Other Education Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:04:49 EDT news599328275