https://phys.org/science-news/education en-us Phys.org provides latest news on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education An international survey involving over 1,600 biomedical researchers has shed light on the perceived causes of irreproducibility in research results. The survey, which included participants from various countries and research institutions, aimed to identify the factors that contribute to the lack of reproducibility in scientific studies. https://phys.org/news/2024-11-survey-highlights-publish-perish-culture.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:00:01 EST news650010781 New research reveals a strong link between higher female education and lower fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa. Educated women are driving a shift toward smaller families and even influencing less educated peers. This new forecasting model offers policymakers valuable insights into how women's education shapes population trends, aiding sustainable development efforts. https://phys.org/news/2024-11-women-fertility-saharan-africa.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:25:04 EST news650013901 With just an iPad, students in any classroom across the world could soon reimagine the ordinary diagrams in any physics textbook—transforming these static images into 3D simulations that run, leap or spin across the page. https://phys.org/news/2024-11-textbooks-alive-interactive-ai-tool.html Education Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:24:23 EDT news649682657 Artificial intelligence-generated summaries of scientific papers make complex information more understandable for the public compared with human-written summaries, according to my recent paper published in PNAS Nexus. AI-generated summaries not only improved public comprehension of science but also enhanced how people perceived scientists. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-simple-science-summaries-written-ai.html Education Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:02:04 EDT news649594922 A recent study published in Nature Communications uncovers how human social interactions evolve in group settings, providing a perspective on the dynamic nature of social networks. By analyzing how university students and preschool children form and dissolve groups in different environments, the research sheds light on the subtle, yet structured patterns that underlie human social behavior. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-social-interactions-evolve-schools-reveals.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:23:03 EDT news649347781 In 2022, U.S. high school students Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson astonished teachers when they discovered a new way to prove Pythagoras' theorem using trigonometry after entering a competition at their local high school. As a result, both students were awarded keys to the city of New Orleans, and even received personal praise from Michelle Obama. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-high-school-students-ways-pythagoras.html Mathematics Education Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:10:02 EDT news649068964 Magic is one of the oldest forms of entertainment, and much of its enchantment is said to rely on the audience not knowing how the tricks are done. However, while magicians swear to keep their secrets forever when they embark on their profession, they are happy to share the tricks of their trade in certain circumstances, a new study shows. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-complex-considerations-magicians-exposing.html Social Sciences Education Sun, 27 Oct 2024 19:00:01 EDT news649068968 There are 45.3 million African Americans living in the United States and they represent 13.6% of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But only 5.7% of physicians in the United States self-identify as Black, despite multiple efforts over many years to increase the number of Black doctors. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-students-historically-black-colleges-universities.html Education Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:23:03 EDT news648912181 Science and Nature, two leading science journals, have revealed a growing problem: an alarming rise in fraudulent research papers produced by shady paper mill companies. This wave of fake studies is creating a major headache for the academic world, putting the integrity of global academic research at risk. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-paper-mills-cartel-companies-fraudulent.html Economics & Business Education Tue, 22 Oct 2024 11:20:10 EDT news648814796 From designing new drug candidates in medicine to drafting new taxation policies in social sciences, the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) in scientific research are all around. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-analysis-approximately-million-employing-ai.html Social Sciences Education Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:59:20 EDT news647870355 In an era when online misinformation is seemingly everywhere and objective facts are often in dispute, UC Berkeley psychologists in a new study have presented a somewhat paradoxical partial solution: Expose young children to more misinformation online—not less. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-exposing-children-misinformation-fact-checkers.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 10 Oct 2024 05:00:01 EDT news647686382 Gender biases around male and female roles and under-representation of female characters appeared in textbooks from around the world, with male-coded words appearing twice as often as female-coded words on average, according to a study published October 9, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Lee Crawfurd from the Center for Global Development, United Kingdom, and colleagues. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-english-language-textbooks-countries-reveals.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:00:02 EDT news647686921 In an examination of thousands of human-written college admissions essays and those generated by AI, researchers found that the AI-generated essays are most similar to essays authored by students who are males, with higher socioeconomic status and higher levels of social privilege. The AI-generated writing is also less varied than that written by humans. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-ai-generated-college-admissions-essays.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:02:11 EDT news647103727 Overall, Matthew Burnett's medical school experience has been wonderful. But the fourth-year medical student at A.T. Still University Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine understands his experience does not represent all medical students. https://phys.org/news/2024-09-mindset-key-medical-students-alarming.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:07:20 EDT news645966436 William Hersh, M.D., who has taught generations of medical and clinical informatics students at Oregon Health & Science University, found himself curious about the growing influence of artificial intelligence. He wondered how AI would perform in his own class. https://phys.org/news/2024-09-chatgpt-ai-real-world-students.html Education Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:30:34 EDT news645723029 Since the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of chronic absenteeism have nearly doubled across the nation for students in kindergarten through grade 12. https://phys.org/news/2024-09-virtual-linked-chronic-absenteeism.html Education Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:59:31 EDT news644756367 Since their release, AI tools like ChatGPT have had a huge impact on content creation. In schools and universities, a debate about whether these tools should be allowed or prohibited is ongoing. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-ai-tools-chatgpt-popular-students.html Education Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:01 EDT news643991521 A team of economic and business researchers from Southeast University, in China, University College London and Queen Mary University of London in the U.K. has found what they describe as the academic equivalent of a Great Gatsby Curve in science mentorships. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-academic-equivalent-great-gatsby-science.html Education Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:39:35 EDT news643973970 In many countries, scientists have experienced a loss of academic freedom in recent years. This trend has been criticized on the basis of fundamental principles. However, there has been no research to date on whether the degree of academic freedom also has an impact on a society's ability to produce innovations. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-academic-freedom.html Education Political science Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:17:06 EDT news643457822 As the use of generative artificial intelligence continues to extend into all reaches of education, much of the concern related to its impact on cheating has focused on essays, essay exam questions and other narrative assignments. Use of AI tools such as ChatGPT to cheat on multiple-choice exams has largely gone ignored. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-statistical-analysis-chatgpt-multiple-choice.html Education Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:34:07 EDT news642861242 As the Paris Olympics captured the world's attention, it proved apparent that winning medals often hinged on the success of teamwork. While such an approach clearly works in sports, new research suggests teamwork is not always the desired method … especially for young scientists trying to find an academic job. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-larger-teams-academic-worsen-career.html Economics & Business Education Wed, 14 Aug 2024 11:00:01 EDT news642847982 A year ago, economics professor Kaushik Basu was in his office hosting a colleague from Sweden, mapping ideas out on a blackboard. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-knowledge-curse-isnt-necessarily.html Education Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:43:36 EDT news642249812 A new study by an international team of collaborators led by researchers at the University of Vienna, and in collaboration with the Dom Museum Wien, aimed to address the questions of whether art exhibitions can make us more empathic or even change our attitudes and behaviors? https://phys.org/news/2024-08-art-socially.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:35:29 EDT news642162922 A new paper from Carnegie Mellon University indicates that giving students more autonomy leads to better attendance and improved performance. The research was published in the journal Science Advances. https://phys.org/news/2024-07-autonomy-boosts-college-student.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:59:15 EDT news641638750 Scientists agree that solving some of society's greatest challenges in biomedicine, such as food sustainability, aging and disease treatment, will need researchers from a variety of scientific fields working together. https://phys.org/news/2024-07-reveals-young-scientists-career-hurdles.html Education Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:00:01 EDT news641449916 A new study from Hebrew University led by Ph.D. student Kinneret Endevelt, under the supervision of Dr. Roni Porat from the Department of Political Science and Department of International Relations and Prof. Eran Halperin from the Department of Psychology, unveils a novel approach to bridging the achievement gap for minority students in higher education. https://phys.org/news/2024-07-higher-minority-students-minor-adjustments.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:09:56 EDT news641470193 The intuition to distill hard numbers like "90 percent" into words like "almost all" may help make science and statistics more accessible, but new research shows that isn't necessarily the best way to engage people online. https://phys.org/news/2024-07-communicating-boosts-climate-science.html Education Political science Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:00:01 EDT news641213517 Do smartphone reminders encourage pupils to engage regularly with learning material? Researchers at the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education investigating this question came to the conclusion that simple reminders such as push notifications tend to have a negative effect on learning times. https://phys.org/news/2024-07-smartphone-negative-impact.html Education Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:08:02 EDT news640433281 Ever wondered why you performed worse than expected in that final university exam where you sat in a cavernous gymnasium or massive hall, despite countless hours, days and weeks of study? Now you have a genuine reason—high ceilings. https://phys.org/news/2024-07-high-ceilings-linked-poorer-exam.html Education Wed, 03 Jul 2024 11:00:04 EDT news639223201 Children who are not considered "school-ready" by their teachers are more than twice as likely to become persistently absent at some point in their education, according to a new study led by the University of Leeds. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-early-childhood-problems-linked-persistent.html Education Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:00:01 EDT news638636841