Category: Education

Your eyes do not read every word, and that may be the point

Your eyes constantly skip, pause and move backwards while reading. A new computational model suggests...

Correlation is increasingly being written like causation, study of 194,631 papers finds

Researchers analysed 194,631 cross-sectional social-science papers and found causal language in nearly half, with the...

A 90-second lesson on taking notes improved students’ maths understanding

A 90-second lesson teaching students to record meaning, problem-solving strategies and points of confusion improved...

Scientists have detected a sugar in interstellar space for the first time

Astronomers have detected a four-carbon sugar in interstellar space for the first time, showing that...

Starting social media in early adolescence was linked to learning losses that lasted for years

Children who opened social media accounts earlier experienced sizeable and persistent learning losses in mathematics...

Early Social Media Use May Follow Children Into the Classroom

A study tracking 5,227 students found that children who joined social media in Grade 6...

The Case for Letting Students Struggle First

High-school students who studied unfamiliar material independently before discussing it with classmates remembered more and...

The Way Students Use AI May Matter More Than Which AI They Use

New research suggests generative AI can improve university learning, but the strongest results depend less...

South African Learners Want Smartphones in Science Class, But Teachers Need a Plan

Teachers and learners at three disadvantaged South African schools were broadly positive about using smartphones...

The Students Who Started Furthest Behind Made the Biggest Reading Gains

A first-year university student can read every word on a page and still miss what...

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