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Narcissism and other dark personality traits linked to AI cheating in art universities
In many countries, there is an academic cheating crisis with students misusing artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT to write essays, dissertations and other assignments. According to new research, certain personality ...
Learning music helps young people flourish
A new study has found that learning music plays a critical yet often overlooked role in enhancing the well-being of children and adolescents, calling for a stronger focus on music education in schools and communities.
Education
Jul 10, 2025
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Automatized vocabulary knowledge in predicting speech fluency
When learning a second language (L2), many are likely familiar with the challenge of memorizing vocabulary, only to struggle with recalling and using it fluently in speech.
Education
Jul 10, 2025
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Science communication struggles to adapt as online platforms reshape information flow
Scientists are crucial voices in the public debate about wicked problems—societal-scale, high-stakes issues with no clear solutions, like pandemics and artificial intelligence. In the past, experts reached the masses through ...
Social Sciences
Jul 10, 2025
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Source criticism in school requires more than isolated interventions
Strengthening school students' resilience to disinformation requires more than isolated interventions on source criticism. A new study from Uppsala University shows that short teaching interventions on disinformation have ...
Education
Jul 9, 2025
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Fascinating, but does it replicate? The reproducibility crisis is undermining scientific trust
Over the last few centuries, the scientific method has established itself as a pretty useful tool.
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Jul 9, 2025
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Forum with alcohol industry ties shows significant bias in reviews of health research
A new study, published in Addiction, shines a light on how industries associated with health harms—such as tobacco, fossil fuels, and in this case, alcohol—can distort the evaluation of scientific research through industry-friendly ...
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Jul 9, 2025
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Private tutoring linked to student disengagement, researchers find
Private tutoring and supplemental learning are intended to enhance classroom learning, but new research led by a professor in the Penn State College of Education has revealed that it may actually erode student engagement. ...
Education
Jul 9, 2025
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AI is driving down the price of knowledge—universities have to rethink what they offer
For a long time, universities worked off a simple idea: knowledge was scarce. You paid for tuition, showed up to lectures, completed assignments and eventually earned a credential.
Economics & Business
Jul 9, 2025
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Culturally diverse Western Australian kids face disadvantage from day one at school
Children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds are twice as likely to face developmental vulnerability in communication skills and general knowledge when starting school compared to their peers, according to new ...
Social Sciences
Jul 9, 2025
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Major US teachers union teams up with AI giants
The second biggest teachers union in the United States unveiled a groundbreaking partnership Tuesday with AI powerhouses Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to develop a comprehensive training program helping educators master ...
Education
Jul 9, 2025
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Q&A: Education researcher discusses the future of AI in K-12 education
"AI could potentially change education drastically," says UC San Diego education scholar Amy Eguchi, who is both excited and concerned about the prospect.
Education
Jul 8, 2025
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Higher ed's relationship with marriage? It's complicated, and depends on age
The longer someone stays in school, the more likely they are to delay getting married—but education does not reduce the overall likelihood of being married later in life, according to our research recently published in ...
Social Sciences
Jul 8, 2025
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Unique strategies use AI and extra credit to improve student performance on physics exams
A team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego have discovered positive uses for AI and extra credit assignments to help improve student performance in introductory ...
Education
Jul 8, 2025
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New teacher-staffing model delivers benefits against retention and turnover crisis, study shows
As schools across the nation grapple with the challenges of hiring and retaining teachers, a new study led by renowned researcher Richard Ingersoll (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education) and Lennon Audrain ...
Education
Jul 8, 2025
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PodGPT: AI model learns from science podcasts to better answer questions
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), has marked a transformative shift in data analysis, interpretation and content generation. These models, trained on extensive ...
Education
Jul 7, 2025
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Young adult literature is not as young as it used to be, shows a librarian's research
Despite its name, the young adult genre is increasingly dominated by stories about older teens and even adults. But as protagonists get older, younger readers are getting left behind, a University of Mississippi study indicates.
Education
Jul 7, 2025
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Turbulent research landscape imperils US brain gain, and ultimately American prosperity
Despite representing only 4% of the world's population, the United States accounts for over half of science Nobel Prizes awarded since 2000, hosts seven of The Times Higher Education Top 10 science universities, and incubates ...
Economics & Business
Jul 7, 2025
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What schools can learn from skate culture
At a school in Malmö, Sweden, skateboarding is on the curriculum. John Dahlquist, vice principal of Bryggeriets High School, teaches skate classes and brings lessons from skateboarding into other subjects. By encouraging ...
Social Sciences
Jul 7, 2025
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'The customer is always right': Why some university teachers give higher grades than students deserve
Grade inflation happens when teachers knowingly give a student a mark higher than deserved. It can also happen indirectly, when the level of difficulty of a course is deliberately lowered so students achieve higher grades.
Education
Jul 7, 2025
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