Category: research studies

  A new study suggests that learning by observation might be faster, but that knowledge acquired through active learning makes it more likely it can be transferable to new contexts. (Editor’s Note: I originally linked...

A big new and important study came out today on the heritability of intelligence and other traits. Even better, Alexander Young, one of the study’s co-authors, wrote a blog post that, though I wouldn’t say is totally...

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...

  A new study has come out finding that good seating posture supports better learning (see Math with good posture means better scores). This will be a nice addition to the regular lesson I do on posture (see Do Your...

Plenty of research has found that using cellphones in class – for non-class related purposes – hurts academic achievement (see The Best Posts On Student Cellphone Use In Class — Please Contribute More). In fact,...

The Hechinger Report recently highlighted a 2016 study analyzing “off-task” behavior in elementary school students. You can read their excellent summary here: Teachers often ask youngsters to learn in ways that...

A big new study came out today on genes and education. I don’t understand most of it, despite it having a huge question/answer section (they even use zombies to try to explain it) and despite an article in The Atlantic...

A new study, co-authored by David Yeager, one of the foremost experts on Social Emotional Learning (I’ve previously posted about his work, including a guest post), found that ninth-graders were able to weather some of the...

  I’m sure this isn’t a surprise to anybody, but The NY Times just published the results of a study finding that people receiving thank you letters cared about their warmth, not how well they were worded (see...