For questions about this field that studies how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations.
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Do the students that report “friendly” teachers perform better on standardized tests?
I'll preface this by saying that I've been considering this question in light of the "Summer of Love" initiative and subsequent blog posts, which are looking at the extent to which comments are ...
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What is the distribution of performance in academic programming subjects?
On Programmers SE there is a popular question about scientific evidence for whether some people either are or are not able to program.
One person cites an unpublished manuscript by Dehnadi and ...
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What is the correlation between self and other ratings of goal orientation?
In educational psychology goal orientation is a popular construct. In particular popular dimensions of goal orientation include performance-approach, performance-avoidance, and mastery. The studies ...
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How to teach parents to apply early childhood interventions to improve cognitive outcomes in children?
I've watched the "My Brilliant Brain: Born Genius" documentary where they refer to the Abecedarian Project, in that investigation, a group of children that were exposed to early childhood education ...
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How to measure student activity, participation, tendency to ask questions, etc?
We would like to compare students from different education systems on the following variables:
tendency to actively participate on lessons
tendency to ask questions
tendency and experience in ...