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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.
You can see all my “Best” lists related to education research here.
Here are some new useful studies (and related resources):
Utilizing Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices in the Classroom
Student-Teacher Relationships and the Influence of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
This is an excerpt from Edutopia’s research email newsletter:
Teaching complex topics to high schoolers can be challenging. As the academic work gets tough, student engagement tends to wane.
One strategy that seems to help is gamification, a new study suggests. A researcher interested in how to teach climate change—a “tricky” topic because it “relies heavily on quantitative data and data representations” and feels hopeless to kids—tested 14- to 18-year-old students on their knowledge of topics like the change in the world’s ice cover over time.
Some of the students read an 817-word text about the greenhouse effect, while the rest played an online number estimation game, offering guesses on questions meant to pique their interest, like “What is the change in the level of methane in the atmosphere from 1750 until now?” Their responses were immediately scored for accuracy, and a pop-up window provided additional clarifying information. Students who played the game scored significantly higher on a post-test of knowledge than those who read the text.
Gamification doesn’t need to be complicated. During challenging lessons, educators can pick their spots and use simple guessing games to improve academic focus, reduce boredom, and increase positive emotions, the research suggests.
The public education system has engaged in a profoundly unique experiment to take tutoring to scale as part of pandemic recovery efforts.
I had the pleasure of speaking w/ @lizcohen12.bsky.social about what we’ve learned & where we go from here.
thefutureoftutoring.substack.com/p/q-and-a-ma…
— Matthew A Kraft (@matthewakraft.com) October 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Important study
Children & adolescents are “far more likely to experience rare but serious heart & inflammatory conditions after a COVID-19 infection than after being vaccinated–and the risks after infection lasted much longer”
Next post has link to study itself
1/3
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork…
— Prof Gavin Yamey (@gavinyamey.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 6:49 AM
This is a decent summary of recent research: How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’
yes, absolutely! Check out this article from @edutopia.org: www.edutopia.org/article/fina…
— Youki Terada (@youkiterada.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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