https://phys.org/science-news/education en-us Phys.org provides latest news on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education Women faculty are more likely to leave academia than men faculty throughout all career stages in U.S. universities, University of Colorado Boulder researchers revealed in the most comprehensive analysis of retention in academia to date. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-analysis-reveals-harsh-workplace-climate.html Economics & Business Education Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:00:01 EDT news617010001 In a part of Sweden northeast of Stockholm, Nina Berglund likes trying out new ways to teach her science students aged 10 to 12. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-science-lessons-europe-life-schooling.html Education Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:42:04 EDT news617024521 Parents face eye-watering costs for childcare in the UK. A part-time nursery place for a child under two sets parents in Britain back, on average, £7,134 a year. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-opinion-responsibility-statecare-young-children.html Education Political science Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:49:04 EDT news617021341 Australian children are facing some big challenges. NAPLAN data shows about one in three students in years 3 to 9 are behind in reading-related skills. It is also estimated about one in seven children have poor mental health. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-kids-difficulties-anxietywhat-parents.html Education Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:37:03 EDT news617020621 College students face different, often co-occurring barriers that may prevent them from participating in healthy leisure activities, like exercising or reading for pleasure, according to new research led by Penn State College of Health and Human Development researchers and alumni. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-barriers-college-students-healthy-leisure.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:36:21 EDT news616941378 In an era plagued by malevolent sources flooding the internet with misrepresentations, distortions, manipulated imagery and flat-out lies, it should come as some comfort that in at least one arena there is an honor system set up to ensure honesty and integrity: the peer-review process for scholarly publications. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-large-language-peer-review.html Education Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:04:12 EDT news616939438 Grouping English learners together in classrooms, a longstanding practice in schools, has no impact—positive or negative—on reading development for elementary school students, shows a new study by a team of literacy education researchers. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-grouping-english-learners-classrooms-yields.html Education Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:00:01 EDT news616863682 The changing information technology industry, latest artificial intelligence applications, high demand for IT professionals, and evolving need for learning are leading to the search for innovations in education that will allow current and future employees to acquire knowledge in a contemporary and accessible way. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-method-people-playing.html Education Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:58:07 EDT news616867083 As clean water access becomes more difficult in the American Southwest, more people are turning to harvesting rainwater as a solution, especially in Arizona. But with little data on contaminants in harvested rainwater, communities are wondering how clean it really is. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-skies-roof-raindrop.html Education Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:57:10 EDT news616856226 Preschool-aged children gain a "musician's advantage" by participating in a specialized rhythm program, investigations by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researchers have found. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-results-rhythm-preschoolers-brain-boost.html Education Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:35:34 EDT news616779331 A new article in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology emphasizes the feasibility and importance of making research-based learning in life sciences available to high school youth internationally. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-borders-engaging-high-school-youth.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:53:03 EDT news616776781 When a person attempts to express their thoughts in writing, they use a series of cognitive functions like working memory to access words and ideas they want to convey, phonological awareness of concepts such as syntax and more. And that is in their native language. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-role-memory-cognitive-functions-english.html Education Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:42:04 EDT news616776122 Laura Jackson became seriously concerned about her daughter and math when the girl was in third grade. While many of her classmates flew through multiplication tests, Jackson's daughter relied on her fingers to count, had difficulty reading clocks and burst into tears when asked at home to practice math flashcards. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-math-disabilities-students-schools-dont.html Education Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:58:37 EDT news616733908 Suspension from school is meant to be a last resort for serious problem behavior. Despite that, an alarming number of children are suspended every year, often at young ages, for minor reasons. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-school-suspensions-entrench-disadvantage-alternatives.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:16:04 EDT news616680961 Even in digital courses, it's not just the spoken word that counts. Aspects such as tone of voice, eye contact and the appreciation experienced are also important, as a study by the University of Würzburg shows. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-dialog-spoken-words-important-teaching-learning.html Education Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:01:04 EDT news616417261 A single personality trait alone—innate happiness—accounts for 24% of student-satisfaction scores in higher education, according to a new international study in the peer-reviewed journal Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. The study by a team from the University of Reading, Hawaii Pacific University, and the University of Bath suggests more than half of student satisfaction is attributable to unalterable individual-level personality traits, such as neuroticism, extraversion and others, rather than to actual quality of received education. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-student-satisfaction-scores-personality.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:11:03 EDT news616338661 Nearly half (48%) of Welsh children aged 7 to 11 are regularly using social media, according to a survey led by academics at Cardiff University. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-social-media-regularly-primary-age.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:21:03 EDT news616335661 Third-grade retention can increase the reading and math scores of struggling students, with positive effects lasting into middle school, according to new research. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-struggling-students-grade.html Education Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:59:03 EDT news616330741 Use of corporate tax breaks to spur economic development appears to be connected with public school underfunding, said Dr. Christine Wen, Texas A&M assistant professor of urban planning, in her recently published study that examined the relationship between business incentives and school finances in nine U.S. states. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-urban-relationship-underfunded-schools-corporate.html Education Political science Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:57:02 EDT news616262221 What has made Australian children's television distinctive over the decades? Why do adults use digital platforms to engage with shows from their childhood? In what ways does local children's television influence how the population understands what it means to be Australian? https://phys.org/news/2023-10-cultural-impacts-australian-kids-tv.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:44:04 EDT news616257841 College students learn more calculus in an active learning course in which students solve problems during class than in a traditional lecture-based course. That's according to a peer-reviewed study my colleagues and I published in Science. We also found that college students better understood complex calculus concepts and earned better grades in the active learning course. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-students-calculus-lessons.html Mathematics Education Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:00:02 EDT news616250773 Researchers are urging an evidence-based approach to the use of simulations to train medics and teachers, amid signs that technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and mixed reality could reshape education in both professions. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-experts-evidence-medical-teacher-embrace.html Education Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:25:04 EDT news616249501 Category learning is a broad term that describes how people learn to classify things around them into various groups. We learn to visually distinguish between cats and dogs, for instance, or to identify specific dog breeds. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-visual-categories-language.html Education Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:25:55 EDT news616163154 Of all the challenges that threaten the well-being of America's schoolchildren, one of the most serious and severe is the lack of school counselors and school psychologists. Despite the increased demand for their services, there's simply not enough professionals in these fields to go around. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-school-counselors-psychologists-wont-america.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 10 Oct 2023 12:43:06 EDT news616160582 There were around 8 billion human beings in 2022, 50% of them women. Although there are as many women as men, the former continue to be underrepresented in science. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-women-scientific-careers.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 09 Oct 2023 12:16:25 EDT news616072579 Negative stereotypes of girls and women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) persist, but York University researchers have designed a brief intervention that makes a big difference toward improving boys' gendered beliefs. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-summer-conversations-boys-positive-views.html Social Sciences Education Fri, 06 Oct 2023 12:37:02 EDT news615814621 The UK government needs to do more to equip schools with the materials and resources to teach young people about climate change and their role in responding to it by refocusing the school curriculum, according to the authors of new research. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-secondary-empower-students-climate-emergency.html Education Political science Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:25:04 EDT news615741902 According to a study, factors such as their place of residence, the economic level of their neighborhoods, and school type, strongly limit equal access to bilingual education in Andalusia https://phys.org/news/2023-10-andalusian-families-bilingual-opportunities.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:12:19 EDT news615741136 Reading ability among U.S. students remained low in 2022, with 37% of fourth graders and 30% of eighth graders scoring below the basic proficiency levels for reading set by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-qa-millions-children-mediocre-skills.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:50:03 EDT news615732601 Teachers wear many hats. They are expected to be subject matter experts, leaders, administrators, managers, lifelong learners—and not just in the classroom, but in their wider communities. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-teachers-nurture-students-world-approaches.html Education Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:50:03 EDT news615729001