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Study Uses Candy-Like Models to Make STEM Accessible to Visually Impaired Students

June 1, 2021
Helen Yiu

Waco, TX — About 36 million people have blindness including 1 million children. Additionally, 216 million people experience moderate to severe visual impairment. However, STEM (science, technology,...

Study Challenges Idea that Students with Cognitive Disabilities can’t be in STEM

April 21, 2021
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Portland, OR — A new Portland State study challenges the idea that youth with cognitive disabilities are unable or lack potential to pursue a career in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In...

Experts Call for More Pragmatic Approach to Higher Education Teaching

January 25, 2021
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Swansea, Wales — Millions of students around the world could benefit if their educators adopted a more flexible and practical approach, say Swansea University experts. After analysing the techniques...

New Review Says the Ineffective ‘Learning Styles’ Theory Persists in Education

January 11, 2021
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Swansea, UK — A new review by Swansea University reveals there is widespread belief, around the world, in a teaching method that is not only ineffective but may actually be harmful to learners. For...

AI Teachers must be Effective and Communicate Well to be Accepted, New Study Finds

November 2, 2020
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Orlando, FL — The increase in online education has allowed a new type of teacher to emerge ¬– an artificial one. But just how accepting students are of an artificial instructor remains to be...

How is STEM Children’s Programming Prioritizing Diversity?

October 20, 2020
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East Lansing, MI — Children’s television programming not only shapes opinions and preferences, its characters can have positive or negative impacts on childhood aspiration, says a new study from...

Personal Interactions are Important Drivers of STEM Identity in Girls

September 22, 2020
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Tallahassee, FL — As head of the educational outreach arm of the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Roxanne Hughes has overseen dozens of science camps...

Unlocking the cell enhances student learning of the genetic code

August 20, 2020
Helen Yiu

San Luis Obispo, CA — An open-source educational biotechnology called the “Genetic Code Kit” has been developed by California Polytechnic State University researchers to allow students...

Not a ‘Math Person’? You may be Better at Learning to Code than You Think

March 3, 2020
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Seattle, WA — Want to learn to code? Put down the math book. Practice those communication skills instead. New research from the University of Washington finds that a natural aptitude for learning...

Edusense: Researchers Develop Comprehensive Classroom Sensing System

November 6, 2019
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Pittsburgh, PA — While training and feedback opportunities abound for K-12 educators, the same can’t be said for instructors in higher education. Currently, the most effective mechanism for professional...

‘Doing Science,’ Rather Than ‘Being Scientists,’ More Encouraging to Those Underrepresented in the Field

May 14, 2019
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New York, NY — Over the course of a school year, elementary school children lose confidence that they can “be scientists,” but remain more confident that they can “do science,”...

Putting Science in Science Communication

April 16, 2019
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Salt Lake City, UT — Bring science to people where they are. That’s the driving philosophy that propels U biology professor Nalini Nadkarni to stretch the possibilities of science communication...

Trials Testing New Educational Methods in Schools ‘Often Fail to Produce Useful Evidence’

March 18, 2019
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York, UK — Educational trials aimed at boosting academic achievement in schools are often uninformative, new research suggests. The new study, published in the journal Educational Researcher,...

Could Blockchain Ensure Integrity of Clinical Trial Data?

February 25, 2019
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San Francisco, CA — UC San Francisco researchers have created a proof-of-concept method for ensuring the integrity of clinical trials data with blockchain. The system creates an immutable audit trail...

Polymer Twin: New Implant Imitates Bone Structure

February 19, 2019
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Moscow, Russia — Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology “MISIS” developed a unique hybrid bone implant, the core of which is made of porous ultra high molecular...

DNA Variants Significantly Influence Body Fat Distribution, Researchers Discover

February 18, 2019
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina — A new breakthrough from the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits consortium, which includes many public health researchers from the University of North Carolina...

New Research Helps Students Excel on Science Exams

January 15, 2019
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New York, NY — A new study released today reveals that helping lower-income high school freshman to regulate their test-taking anxiety can cut their biology course failure rates in half. The study,...

UH Receives $2.8 Million to Develop Leaders in STEM Education

March 15, 2018

The University of Houston has been awarded $2.8 million from the National Science Foundation to prepare more teachers to lead the way in science, technology, engineering and math education (STEM).

Teaching Teachers to Teach Better, More Innovatively

March 15, 2018

Some of the nation’s top teachers, administrators, and leaders of technology in education will convene at The Oakridge School Feb. 22-23 for the 2018 Lausanne Learning Institute (LLI) Southwest...

How Do Teachers Integrate STEM Into K-12 Classrooms?

March 14, 2018

A team led by Michigan Technological University set out to find what makes STEM integration tick. Their research, published in the International Journal of STEM Education, followed several case studies...

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