Achievement Cognitive Development Study 
eSchool News
JANUARY 6, 2025
In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Instead, more often than not, graduate education provides depth almost to the systematic exclusion of breadth; developing isolated and disconnected experts rather than those who can meaningfully connect with others and their expertise toward achieving common goals.
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Edsurge
MARCH 3, 2025
A study published in Developmental Psychology found that early math skills at kindergarten entry are among the most significant predictors of later academic achievement , even more so than early reading skills. Addressing early numeracy can be pivotal in closing achievement gaps, particularly for students from underserved communities.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
Source: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Academic development is represented by the content areas required on the path toward a high school diploma (e.g., math, literacy, science, social studies, foreign language, art). Cognitive development includes skills like those involved in memory and processing information.
Edsurge
APRIL 16, 2018
Research shows that by the age of 12, students will develop an economic understanding that researchers describe as “essentially adult”. My organization, The MassMutual Foundation , is committed to equipping young people with the financial skills and capacities they need to achieve those outcomes. They are looking for better outcomes.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
“They're not going to be able to even use the controller with great effect,” says Heather Kirkorian, an associate professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the impact of screen media on infants and young children.
Dangerously Irrelevant
APRIL 9, 2018
Given what we know about teacher retention and/or the cognitive development of young children, this is incredibly dismaying (and not limited to Massachusetts). In other words, compared to more traditional schools, these schools ROCK IT on many of the outcomes that we say that we are trying to achieve for our students.
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