The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A team of Canadian and Australian researchers decided to take a scientific approach and comb through classroom studies across the world on sparking student motivation. They found 144 studies involving nearly 80,000 students, from elementary school through university. Two conclusions jumped out.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

Against this political backdrop, a new study raises big questions about whether gifted education benefits the kids who are lucky enough to be in it. The study, “Do Students in Gifted Programs Perform Better? Some studies have shown sluggish learning growth for gifted students. Redding and his co-author, Jason A.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

A new study suggests that this sort of technology overuse doesn’t just pop up during adolescence. Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

and the kids agree as studies have indicated. Gallup has conducted more than 5 million surveys with students in grades five through 12 over the past several years. Engagement is strong at the end of elementary school, with nearly three-quarters of fifth-graders (74%) reporting high levels of engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

Those parents should consider the results of a new study finding that children who are mildly symptomatic for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often end up worse off in school if diagnosed with the condition. An earlier 2017 study found that the diagnosed children had worse reading scores in eighth grade than the undiagnosed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

Studies released during the second half of 2021 confirm that students learned a lot more in person than they did during remote instruction. Now we have a new batch of studies analyzing how students did on fall 2021 assessments. Credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images. The slide was much larger in math than in reading.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

According to the 2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education , K-3 students receive an average of 18 minutes of instruction per day in science, compared to 89 minutes in ELA and 57 minutes in math. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science. This story about U.S. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 4, 2024

Corriveau and Kurkul (2016) administered a study of preschool-aged students about how they choose from whom to learn. The purpose of the study was to see if a preschoolers’ preference in informer is related to SES (Corriveau & Kurkul, 2016). Their study involved 14,049 students across fifty-one middle schools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With college application season in full swing and the competition for acceptance into top schools more competitive than ever, students are turning to AI-powered tools for application support, reveals a new survey from Brainly. The survey data underscores a fundamental change in how students utilize AI tools for college applications.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

A Minnesota study of 18,000 students whose schools switched to a later start time found kids slept more but posted only slightly higher grades. Fewer studies have looked at academic achievement after a later morning bell. A 2018 study reported increases in grades and attendance in one Seattle high school but not in another. “The

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Which students get to attempt intellectually stimulating courses like calculus may rely in part on where they attend high school rather than just their aptitude for math, according to a new study. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study. Some of the dissimilarities in the report are mysterious.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Adding outdoor classrooms to elementary schools. According to the 2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education , which compiled the information on minutes spent learning science, only 17 percent of early elementary classes had science lessons most days of the week. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

“We know that kids love it and so do parents and teachers,” said Emily Morton, a researcher at NWEA, a nonprofit assessment company, who has studied four-day school weeks around the country. The first empirical study, published in 2015, found that Colorado students in four-day schools did a lot better.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A survey of college professors indicates that most fields of study don’t require many of the math topics that high school students learn in high school. Martin and his colleagues later realized that the survey had implications for high school math too, and presented these results at an Oct. But that’s maybe 20 percent.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 1, 2019

But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In a Gallup survey of K–12 district superintendents, 67 percent of respondents said the number of new teacher candidates is decreasing; 39 percent said quality is also declining. He spent two years as an elementary teacher, two years as an educational trainer, 10 years as a director of technology and six years as a school superintendent.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Considering what the 24-year-old shares in the video about her experience as a climate activist and former environmental studies student in college, the need for a heads-up becomes apparent. “As And ironically my therapist said, ‘I get a lot of you environmental studies majors in here,’ and she was very happy that I came to see her.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

According to the survey results, conducted in March, 74% of teacher respondents were in a fully remote or hybrid teaching model at the time, and 58% had no prior online teaching experience. Without a doubt, the indicators of this study demonstrate that teachers need assistance.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

” Yet, national surveys of writing indicate that teachers beyond third grade spend little time on explicit writing instruction. Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019). Kiuhara, S. A., & MacKay, M.

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Buncee

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Interest Surveys. Tyllie graduated with a BA from the University of Northern Iowa in 1999 with a TESOL major and Spanish minor and a MA in School Library Studies in 2015. The post 6 Ideas For Using Buncee in the Elementary Classroom appeared first on Buncee Blog. Click here for an example.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

It also examines survey results and statewide policies to understand the extent to which principals have access to high-quality learning opportunities and the role of policies in increasing access. The study’s authors are Linda Darling-Hammond, Marjorie E. Wechsler, Stephanie Levin, Melanie Leung-Gagné and Steve Tozer.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

Maggie is a fifth grader at Roosevelt Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois and in Fall 2017, she was trained to become a “TechXpert” at her school so she could coach fellow students daily during the tech lab at the LRC. Fortunately, after an initial survey, it was clear that the upcoming fourth-graders were eager to take the lead.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 20, 2020

A recent survey found that the coronavirus pandemic has been challenging for teachers, parents and students alike. Students said their main worry was being easily distracted, less motivated, and less effective at studying. About the author: Jessica Bayliss has worked with students and developed ed tech materials for over 15 years.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. Nationwide research is also relatively infrequent — the most recent in-depth study of U.S. The answer?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. The researchers also detected an increase in students’ compassion for others, or emotional empathy, based on student surveys. Disciplinary infractions were 3.6

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Michael Williams, an assistant professor in the MU College of Education and Human Development, analyzed a nation-wide survey conducted by Harvard University that asked nearly 16,000 college students if they attended a college-run STEM Career Day while in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

More group work was associated with greater individual gains in a new study. I visited many elementary and middle schools where students, with bulging headphones wrapped over their heads, stared at separate computers, each learning something different at the same moment. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. Another longitudinal study on bullying focused on 2,000 United States middle schoolers on their journey to high school. Here are a few takeaways.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

Studies show that screening students for mental health functions serves as intervention and prevention of developing mental health issues (Desrochers, 2006). Using research findings from the past decades and most recent studies in education and psychology, a screening tool can be parsimonious. Juechter, J. V., & Kamphaus, R.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Cultivating an early interest in STEM There is a stigma surrounding math and science that typically begins in elementary and middle schools, perpetuating the idea that math and science is ‘scary,’ too hard or challenging, or a topic meant for boys. Inadequate or unavailable resources.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

But education researchers who study the teaching profession say the threat is exaggerated. Department of Education released a national survey of more than 800 schools on Aug. Source: Dan Goldhaber with data from National Center for Education Statistics Schools and Staffing Surveys and National Teacher and Principal Surveys.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

And separate international studies of 15-year-olds and fourth graders indicate that eighth grade reading habits aren’t telling the whole story. In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school. “We First, the numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2022

Teachers are expected to impart so many things, from how to study and take notes to how to share and take turns. They analyzed 53 elementary school teachers who had been randomly assigned to classrooms in their schools located in four different districts along the East Coast. Deciding what constitutes good teaching is a messy business.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

CHICAGO — In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who loves reading but struggles in math. Several educators in the classroom identified with Wendi, and that was the point.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Credit: Getty Images Why is it that only 15 percent of public school leaders say they’re “extremely concerned” about student absences, according to a recent Education Department survey? 12, 2024 column about how chronic absenteeism remains stubbornly high in elementary, middle and high schools. How can this be?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

More than half of today’s adult workers (62 percent) say they were never exposed to STEM-related studies and career possibilities in elementary school, according to a survey from littleBits and YouGov. Much research points to the worrisome prediction that the U.S.

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