Barbara Oakley, an engineering professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., says the key to mathematics expertise is practice, not conceptual understanding as some common-core proponents would ...

Since the 1970s, the NAEP Long-Term Trend Assessment (LTT) has tracked student academic performance, and it was last administered just before the pandemic. Those pre-pandemic results can be compared ...

Rote learning has long dominated classrooms, emphasising memorisation over understanding. AI personal computers (AI PCs) transform this dynamic by offering immediate feedback, simulations, and ...

Last week I talked about the nature of short-term, or working memory and how it helps it build expertise. This week, I want to talk a bit more about how that short-term memory builds long-term memory, ...

Last week I talked about the nature of short-term, or working memory and how it helps it build expertise. This week, I want to talk a bit more about how that short-term memory builds long-term memory, ...

Difficulties in learning statistics primarily at the college-level led to a reform movement in statistics education in the early 1990s. Although much work has been done, effective learning designs ...

Journal of Science Education and Technology, Vol. 14, No. 5/6 (Dec., 2005), pp. 459-470 (12 pages) This study describes high school students' conceptual development of the basic astronomical phenomena ...