Research Studies Of The Week

I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature.

By the way, you might also be interested in MY BEST POSTS ON NEW RESEARCH STUDIES IN 2021 – PART TWO.

You can see all my “Best” lists related to education research here.

Here are some new useful studies (and related resources):

Schools cut covid-19 sick days by 20 per cent using HEPA air filters is from New Scientist.

This is a really important new paper from a great research team. The relationships here are enormous, a one point increase in special education candidates’ perception of university supervisor support almost DOUBLES the likelihood that they report an intent to teach! https://t.co/nr185N86c9 pic.twitter.com/yKsjtzVKas

— Roddy Theobald (@RoddyTheobald) October 27, 2023

I remember reading a draft of this paper several years ago and being blow away with its creativity and huge implications for education policy and practice.

READ it. https://t.co/nrL0pd5MZe

— Matthew A. Kraft (@MatthewAKraft) October 30, 2023

Natural mentorships between students & K12 school personnel are relatively common. Over 15% of adolescents identify a teacher, counselor, or coach as their most important non-parent mentor, but access to these relationships differs substantially by student race/ethnicity.

2/n pic.twitter.com/A87RHeURRu

— Matthew A. Kraft (@MatthewAKraft) November 2, 2023

In Why Don’t Students Like School? I said stories are “psychologically privileged.” Much work since, confirming robustness of the effect–stories are easier to understand and remember. (Usual comparison = expository essay.) Here’s a recent meta-analysis https://t.co/Za0rRy2lWy pic.twitter.com/Q2FIjJFg1t

— Daniel Willingham 🦆 (@DTWillingham) November 2, 2023

Flashcards prevail over repetition in memorizing multiplication tables https://t.co/t4QW63WVfT pic.twitter.com/IZ8NILJjtB

— Carl Hendrick (@C_Hendrick) October 31, 2023