https://phys.org/science-news/education en-us Phys.org provides latest news on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education From smart virtual assistants and self-driving cars to digital health and fraud prevention systems, AI technology is transforming almost every aspect of our daily lives—and education is no different. For all its promise, the rise of AI, like any new technology, raises some pressing ethical and equity questions. https://phys.org/news/2024-02-robot-friend-ai-accessible.html Education Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:21:57 EST news627916913 Student enrollment in districts that provided in-person schooling in fall 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic showed a greater decline among nonwhite students than white students. https://phys.org/news/2024-02-reveals-racial-disparities-school-enrollment.html Social Sciences Education Fri, 23 Feb 2024 09:08:06 EST news627901681 The teaching of science has long generated controversy in the United States—from evolution in the early 20th century to climate change today. Debates have also often emerged around how textbooks teach concepts related to social groups, and in particular whether they gloss over complex realities in ways that may mislead students in providing scientific instruction. https://phys.org/news/2024-02-biology-textbooks-students-comprehensive-view.html Education Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:00:01 EST news627815431 Research suggests that reading on screens is a less effective way to absorb and retain information than reading the old-fashioned way, but why? And when so many of us are noticing shortening attention spans, how do we learn to concentrate on books again? https://phys.org/news/2024-02-screens-paper-effective-absorb-retain.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 06 Feb 2024 10:50:28 EST news626439024 In a study of nearly 5,000 North American first-year college students, those who were more extroverted, more agreeable, or less neurotic were more likely to feel a greater sense of belonging at school. Alexandria Stubblebine, an independent researcher in Ocala, Florida, U.S., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-personality-traits-linked-college-students.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:00:01 EST news624709982 Until the early morning of February 24, 2022, Ukrainian scientist Olena Iarmosh did not believe there would be a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Iarmosh grew up and had settled in Kharkiv, her beloved city in Eastern Ukraine and only 40 km away from the Russian border, where she worked for more than 16 years as a lecturer in higher education before fleeing to Switzerland. At approximately 5 a.m., she awoke to the sounds of bombing, hoping that they were merely the loud sounds of technical maintenance at the local power plant. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-ukraine-lost-scientists-due-war.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:00:01 EST news621530568 North Carolina State University researchers have developed a weeklong high school curriculum that helps students quickly grasp concepts in both color chemistry and artificial intelligence—while sparking their curiosity about science and the world around them. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-high-school-curriculum-chemistry-ai.html Education Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:04:10 EST news621187447 Remote teams are less likely to make breakthrough discoveries compared to those who work onsite, according to research led by the universities of Oxford and Pittsburgh into the rise of remote collaborations among scientists and inventors across the world. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-remote-collaborations-scientific-breakthroughs-co-led.html Economics & Business Education Wed, 29 Nov 2023 11:00:01 EST news620476408 New research from the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center suggests that Ph.D. graduates in science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM) in the U.S. who became disabled before age 25 earn $14,360 less per year in academia than those without disabilities. They are also underrepresented at higher faculty levels (such as deans and presidents) and in tenured positions. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-phd-disabilities-underpaid-underrepresented-academia.html Economics & Business Education Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:07:03 EST news620323621 Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and Loyola University have discovered that personality does not seem to have much influence when it comes to choosing social friendships at school, which are based more on the closeness of our contacts, according to a study recently published in the journal PNAS. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-people-friendships-school.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:44:00 EST news620311437 A new study shows that female academics are significantly underrepresented in winning academic prizes and having awards named after them. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-female-academics-prizes-award-woman.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:26:31 EST news619806390 An analysis of 5.8 million authors across all scientific disciplines shows that the gender gap is closing, but there is still a long distance to go. The new research by John Ioannidis of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICs) at Stanford University, US, and colleagues, was published Nov. 21 in the journal PLOS Biology. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-most-cited-scientists-men-gender-gap.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:00:02 EST news619778116 Success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) demands keeping up with the latest tools and techniques. The AI boom, for example, has made coding and data management skills integral. But going back to school isn't an option for most scientists. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-framework-aims-short-stem-effective.html Education Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:30:29 EST news619785026 U.S. college students majoring in STEM fields currently graduate about 20% less often than their non-STEM peers, a resounding clarion call for better assisting those students, especially in their first few semesters. Though systemic, long-term shifts—away from lecturing, toward the sharing of evidence-based teaching practices—should help, the inertia of academia can sometimes slow their adoption. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-ai-based-intervention-undergrads-stem.html Education Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:15:02 EST news619096501 In a new study, researchers developed a series of artificial intelligence tools that can scan through essays in college applications, picking out evidence of key personal traits. That includes qualities like leadership and perseverance. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-ai-college-essay-complicated.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:15:04 EST news618660901 Women faculty are more likely to leave academia than men faculty throughout all career stages in U.S. universities, University of Colorado Boulder researchers revealed in the most comprehensive analysis of retention in academia to date. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-analysis-reveals-harsh-workplace-climate.html Economics & Business Education Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:00:01 EDT news617010001 In an era plagued by malevolent sources flooding the internet with misrepresentations, distortions, manipulated imagery and flat-out lies, it should come as some comfort that in at least one arena there is an honor system set up to ensure honesty and integrity: the peer-review process for scholarly publications. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-large-language-peer-review.html Education Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:04:12 EDT news616939438 Researchers Jayne Spiller and Camilla Gilmore at the Center for Mathematical Cognition, University of Loughborough, U.K., have investigated the intersection of sleep and mathematical memory, finding that sleep after learning improves recall. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-mathematical-bedtime-stories-memory.html Mathematics Education Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:20:02 EDT news615547087 As much of the U.S. broils under record-setting temperatures, battles wildfires and is rocked by fierce storms, a new study suggests that the science learning standards for many public schools are not preparing young people to understand and respond to problems such as climate change that will dramatically impact their lives and those of millions of people around the globe. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-state-politics-industry-planetary-health.html Education Political science Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:07:05 EDT news615053222 A new study from Western researchers examining the impacts of the school closures and remote learning on elementary students during the COVID-19 pandemic has tapped the perspective of a critical group: teachers. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-students-low-income-households-experienced-losses.html Economics & Business Education Wed, 27 Sep 2023 09:44:03 EDT news615026641 Biomedical research aimed at improving human health is particularly reliant on publicly funded basic science, according to a new analysis boosted by artificial intelligence. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-machine-analysis-citations-highlights-importance.html Education Political science Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:44:03 EDT news614342641 A major new study has revealed that American teenagers are more likely than any other nationality to brag about their math ability. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-teenagers-exaggerate-math-abilities.html Mathematics Education Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:00:01 EDT news613915822 Overconfidence has long been recognized as a critical problem in judgment and decision making. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-knowledge-great-confidence-reveals-relationship.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:17:03 EDT news613912621 So much for the powerful feminist messaging in the new Barbie movie. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-kids-gender-roles-preschool.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:30:01 EDT news613740337 Experiences of anti-Asian racism and feelings of invisibility are common among Asian American medical students, according to a Yale-led study based on interviews with students at more than a dozen schools in the U.S. The experiences, say the researchers, highlight the need to establish a more inclusive medical school learning environment. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-anti-asian-racism-medical-students.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:04:15 EDT news613656251 Scientific research depends on collaboration between researchers and institutions. But over the past decade, there has been a surge of large-scale research projects involving extraordinarily large numbers of researchers, from dozens to hundreds, all working on a common project. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-big-team-science-blueprint-collaboration.html Education Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:26:04 EDT news613391161 Calculus is the study of change. Calculus teaching methods, however, have changed little in recent decades. Now, FIU research shows a new model could improve calculus instruction nationwide. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-revamped-calculus.html Mathematics Education Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:25:27 EDT news612782721 Exciting a brain region using electrical noise stimulation can help improve mathematical learning in those who struggle with the subject, according to a new study from the Universities of Surrey and Oxford, Loughborough University, and Radboud University in The Netherlands. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-brain-key-boosting-math.html Mathematics Education Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:22:18 EDT news612710532 In the case of boredom, we think of many situations in life but intuitively not of exams. However, an international team of academics led by Thomas Götz from the University of Vienna has now studied exactly this phenomenon of test boredom for the first time and found remarkable results. According to the study, school students are actually very bored during exams. The study also showed that utter boredom has a negative effect on exam results. The research results have been published recently in the Journal of Educational Psychology. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-results-students-exams.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:53:40 EDT news612629617 In the innovation economy, individuals with STEM Ph.D.s are a critical source of human capital, with nearly 60% of Ph.D.s in STEM fields—such as engineering, chemistry and biology—being employed outside of universities. These students are increasingly contributing to commercial science through patenting. New research from MIT Sloan School of Management and Copenhagen Business School has investigated the training of these Ph.D. students to better understand the pipeline and preparation of new inventors. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-gender-disparities-limit-chances-women.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:55:52 EDT news612456945