When the University of Texas at Austin closed its Center for Teaching and Learning earlier this year, it joined a very small group (6 percent) of high-research-activity doctoral u ...
Editor’s note: This article is part of Teaching the Adult Learner: Practical Strategies for Higher Ed Success, a six-part series exploring how colleges can better support nontraditional students.
Dozens of studies have come out over the past months concluding that the pandemic had a negative—and uneven—effect on student learning. National analyses have shown that students who were already ...
The debate over online versus in-person classroom learning in K-12 education rages on, driven by concerns over student engagement, academic performance, and social-emotional development. Advocates of ...
There’s a consensus in science education that science should be something students actually get to do—that learning how to employ investigative methods to test hypotheses is just as important as ...
Jenny Gore receives funding from the Paul Ramsay Foundation, NSW Department of Education, Australian Research Council and the Australian Government. Andrew Miller receives funding from the Paul Ramsay ...
Student success is a critically important issue for school districts–and not simply because districts want students to perform well. Improving student learning and student success is necessary for ...
Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...
Lucy Lu is the Senior Manager, Analytics and Strategic Projects in the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO). AERO is jointly funded by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments.
In our current U.S. education system, we tend to “track” students from a very young age—and once on this path, it’s hard for any student who falls behind to change course. A student who scores a C on ...