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 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 Researchers Jayne Spiller and Camilla Gilmore at the Center for Mathematical Cognition, University of Loughborough, U.K., have investigated the intersection of sleep and mathematical memory, finding that sleep after learning improves recall. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-mathematical-bedtime-stories-memory.html Mathematics Education Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:20:02 EDT news615547087 As much of the U.S. broils under record-setting temperatures, battles wildfires and is rocked by fierce storms, a new study suggests that the science learning standards for many public schools are not preparing young people to understand and respond to problems such as climate change that will dramatically impact their lives and those of millions of people around the globe. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-state-politics-industry-planetary-health.html Education Political science Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:07:05 EDT news615053222 A new study from Western researchers examining the impacts of the school closures and remote learning on elementary students during the COVID-19 pandemic has tapped the perspective of a critical group: teachers. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-students-low-income-households-experienced-losses.html Economics & Business Education Wed, 27 Sep 2023 09:44:03 EDT news615026641 Biomedical research aimed at improving human health is particularly reliant on publicly funded basic science, according to a new analysis boosted by artificial intelligence. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-machine-analysis-citations-highlights-importance.html Education Political science Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:44:03 EDT news614342641 A major new study has revealed that American teenagers are more likely than any other nationality to brag about their math ability. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-teenagers-exaggerate-math-abilities.html Mathematics Education Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:00:01 EDT news613915822 Overconfidence has long been recognized as a critical problem in judgment and decision making. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-knowledge-great-confidence-reveals-relationship.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:17:03 EDT news613912621 So much for the powerful feminist messaging in the new Barbie movie. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-kids-gender-roles-preschool.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:30:01 EDT news613740337 Experiences of anti-Asian racism and feelings of invisibility are common among Asian American medical students, according to a Yale-led study based on interviews with students at more than a dozen schools in the U.S. The experiences, say the researchers, highlight the need to establish a more inclusive medical school learning environment. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-anti-asian-racism-medical-students.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:04:15 EDT news613656251 Scientific research depends on collaboration between researchers and institutions. But over the past decade, there has been a surge of large-scale research projects involving extraordinarily large numbers of researchers, from dozens to hundreds, all working on a common project. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-big-team-science-blueprint-collaboration.html Education Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:26:04 EDT news613391161 Calculus is the study of change. Calculus teaching methods, however, have changed little in recent decades. Now, FIU research shows a new model could improve calculus instruction nationwide. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-revamped-calculus.html Mathematics Education Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:25:27 EDT news612782721 Exciting a brain region using electrical noise stimulation can help improve mathematical learning in those who struggle with the subject, according to a new study from the Universities of Surrey and Oxford, Loughborough University, and Radboud University in The Netherlands. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-brain-key-boosting-math.html Mathematics Education Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:22:18 EDT news612710532 In the case of boredom, we think of many situations in life but intuitively not of exams. However, an international team of academics led by Thomas Götz from the University of Vienna has now studied exactly this phenomenon of test boredom for the first time and found remarkable results. According to the study, school students are actually very bored during exams. The study also showed that utter boredom has a negative effect on exam results. The research results have been published recently in the Journal of Educational Psychology. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-results-students-exams.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:53:40 EDT news612629617 In the innovation economy, individuals with STEM Ph.D.s are a critical source of human capital, with nearly 60% of Ph.D.s in STEM fields—such as engineering, chemistry and biology—being employed outside of universities. These students are increasingly contributing to commercial science through patenting. New research from MIT Sloan School of Management and Copenhagen Business School has investigated the training of these Ph.D. students to better understand the pipeline and preparation of new inventors. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-gender-disparities-limit-chances-women.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:55:52 EDT news612456945 ChatGPT may match or even exceed the average grade of university students when answering assessment questions across a range of subjects including computer science, political studies, engineering, and psychology, reports a paper published in Scientific Reports. The research also found that almost three-quarters of students surveyed would use ChatGPT to help with their assignments, despite many educators considering its use to be plagiarism. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-chatgpt-outperform-university-students-assignments.html Education Thu, 24 Aug 2023 11:00:03 EDT news612093601 A team of scientists from over a dozen of the nation's top bioengineering programs have created a roadmap for developing and implementing a hiring process aimed at increasing diversity among biomedical engineering faculty. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-national-network-biomedical-six-step-roadmap.html Other Education Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:20:25 EDT news611310018 A data analysis of Queensland children has found that those who attended pre-school displayed lower levels of developmental vulnerabilities based on an educational measure mapping progress during their first year. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-highlights-pre-school-regional-children.html Education Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:15:20 EDT news611309714 UK researchers are calling on higher education institutes and research funders to adopt a new set of recommended actions to address the substantial under-representation of Ph.D. students from ethnic minority backgrounds. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-action-boost-diversity-postgraduate-science.html Education Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:22:24 EDT news610280534 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