article thumbnail

Diversity in College Classrooms Improves Grades for All Students, Study Finds

Edsurge

A study published in the journal AERA Open found that students earn better marks in college STEM courses when those classrooms have higher percentages of students who are underrepresented racial minorities or the first in their families to participate in higher education.

Study 211
article thumbnail

Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

Edsurge

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. McLaren was preparing to replicate the study in schools in the fall with a different math game. One such game is called Decimal Point.

STEM 162
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

New AI Tools Are Promoted As Study Aids for Students. Are They Doing More Harm Than Good?

Edsurge

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint.

Study 214
article thumbnail

Researchers Try Using AI Chatbots to Conduct Interviews for Social Science Studies

Edsurge

It's a very quantitative perspective to think that just having more participants automatically makes the study better — and that's not necessarily true,” says Andrew Gillen, an assistant teaching professor in the first-year engineering program at Northeastern University.

Study 186
article thumbnail

Most Teachers Are Satisfied With Their Workplace, but They’re Still Burned Out

Edsurge

Researchers are looking at whether teachers have what they need to thrive in Teaching for Tomorrow: Educators on the Future of Their Profession, part of a multiyear study undertaken by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation.

Teachers 185
article thumbnail

The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

Edsurge

While the concept of HQIM has been established and embraced in other core academic disciplines, applying this concept to social studies has been more complex. Unlike content standards for math or science, where there is more uniformity across states, social studies standards can vary significantly from one state to another.

article thumbnail

Bite-Size Learning, Big Results: Why Microlearning is the Future of Education

k12 Digest

This fundamental truth about human cognition has finally found its perfect technological match in the form of microlearning. As we witness the rapid evolution of educational technology, the convergence of bite-sized learning modules with intelligent virtual tutors is creating unprecedented opportunities for personalised education.

Education 154