Category: Education

Exercise linked to stronger academic performance through resilience in 950-student study

A study of 950 Chinese university students found physical exercise was positively associated with academic...

Free AI tutors kept South African science student teachers engaged, but errors remained

A 10-week South African study of 42 science student teachers found free generative AI tutors...

Personalised micro-interventions improved teacher happiness in 84-school trial

A cluster-randomised trial across 84 public schools found network-targeted micro-interventions improved teacher happiness by 4.4...

Digital distraction predicted lower classroom engagement across a year-long smartphone study

A three-wave study of 1,020 Chinese high school students found digital distraction predicted lower later...

Gamified learning lifted task completion from 64% to 84% in eight-week school study

An eight-week study of 100 secondary-school students found gamification raised median task completion from 64.3%...

How students use generative AI mattered more for critical thinking than how often they used it

A 430-student study found that collaborative and guidance-oriented GenAI use were positively associated with critical...

Midterm results reshaped students’ sense of belonging before belonging predicted final exam performance

A study of introductory biology students found midterm performance predicted later belonging, which then predicted...

Cyber harassment was linked to academic impairment in 1,862 Saudi university students

A study of 1,862 Saudi undergraduates linked cyber harassment engagement to perceived academic impairment and...

Educational AI benchmark separated six chatbots from 60% to 100% on a reliability-focused score

A new benchmark tested six educational chatbots on course-grounded questions, finding AI Scores from 60%...

Only 9% of Japanese students substantially changed academic standing, and behaviour shifted alongside them

A 16,946-student Japanese study found major changes in relative academic standing were uncommon and hard...

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