Link between test anxiety and poor sleepby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 19h
Research News College students across the country struggle with a vicious cycle: Test anxiety triggers poor sleep, which in turn reduces performance on the tests that caused the anxiety in the first place. New research from the University of Kansas just published in the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine is shedding light on this biopsychosocial process that can lead to poor grades, wit
Eye movements of those with dyslexia reveal laborious and inefficient reading strategiesby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 19h
Research News Researchers have long noted that readers with dyslexia employ eye movements that are significantly different from non-dyslexics. While these movements have been studied in small sample sizes in the past, a new paper written by Concordia researchers and published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports looks at a much larger group. The study used eye-tracking technology to record th
Effects of Educational Apps on Preschool to Grade 3 Children’s Literacy and Math Skillsby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 19h
Complete report Thousands of educational apps are available to students, teachers, and parents, yet research on their effectiveness is limited. This meta-analysis synthesized findings from 36 intervention studies and 285 effect sizes evaluating the effectiveness of educational apps for preschool to Grade 3 children and the moderating role of methodological, participant, and intervention character
Substantial impacts can be obtained for struggling readersby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 19h
This article reviews research on the outcomes of diverse reading programs on the achievement of struggling readers in elementary schools. Sixty‐five studies of 51 different programs met rigorous standards. Eighty‐three percent were randomized experiments and 17% quasi‐experiments. Outcomes were positive for one‐to‐one tutoring and were positive but not as large for one‐to‐small group tutoring. Th
Success for All: Reading success of disadvantaged students.by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 19h
Success for All (SFA) is a comprehensive whole-school approach designed to help high-poverty elementary schools increase the reading success of their students. It is designed to ensure success in grades K-2 and then build on this success in later grades. SFA combines instruction emphasizing phonics and cooperative learning, one-to-small group tutoring for students who need it in the primary grade
Police Officers in Schools: Making Schools Safer but Escalating Disciplinary Responseby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d
The “defund the police” movement has recently called for the removal of police—or school resource officers (SROs)—from schools. This call is driven by concerns that SROs may heighten student contact with criminal justice or lead to disproportionately harsh disciplinary consequences. This study uses linked disciplinary, academic, juvenile justice, and adult conviction data from North Carolina to e
Research on the effectiveness of categories of adult education strategiesby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d
A new IES snapshot, Adult Education Strategies: Identifying and Building Evidence of Effectiveness , summarizes a systematic review of existing, rigorous research on the effectiveness of categories of adult education strategies. Key findings include— There has been little rigorous research on whether particular strategies in adult education improve learner outcomes. The rigorous research that has
Reading Skills of Fourth-Graders Performing Below NAEP Basicby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d
Results from the 2018 NAEP Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) study show, for the first time, that fluent reading of text can be a major challenge for many fourth-grade public school students who perform below NAEP Basic on the NAEP reading assessment. This study was administered to a nationally
