News tagged with classroom behavior

Teaching self-control skills to children reduces classroom problems

Children taught skills to monitor and control their anger and other emotions improved their classroom behavior and had significantly fewer school disciplinary referrals and suspensions, according to a study by University ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Poor attention in kindergarten predicts lower high school test scores

As thousands of students nationwide prepare to leave high school, a UC Davis study appearing online today in the June issue of the medical journal Pediatrics shows a clear link between attention problems early in school — as ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Dolphins learn from each other to beg for food from humans

(Phys.org) -- Dolphins may learn harmful or undesirable behaviors, such as begging for food from humans, from each other, Murdoch University researchers have discovered.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Findings from discipline-based education research could improve undergraduate science and engineering teaching

Discipline-based education research (DBER) has generated insights that could help improve undergraduate education in science and engineering, but these findings have not yet prompted widespread changes in teaching practice, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stanford professors propose 'lecture-less' medical school classes

Dramatic changes are needed in medical student education, including a substantial reduction in the number of traditional lectures, according to a perspective piece to be published May 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine by two ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Hackers for hire put corporate security systems to the test

Most weekdays, Jarrad Sims and Tin Tam, a pair of college buddies, ride their bikes to a computer center and try to hack into computer security systems belonging to Boeing Co.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Students need to be 'switched on' to maths, say researchers

(Phys.org) -- The precarious decline in children's participation in mathematics can only be reversed by tackling a complex mix of factors, including positive and negative attitudes of a student's parents, peers and teachers, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Should teachers and students be Facebook friends?

(AP) -- Should students and teachers ever be friends on Facebook? School districts across the country, including the nation's largest, are weighing that question as they seek to balance the risks of inappropriate ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Texting in college classrooms common, distracting

(HealthDay) -- College students are texting frequently during class time, and that may interfere with their ability to pay attention and learn, a new study finds.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Study: Female students wary of the engineering workplace

Why don’t more women enter the male-dominated profession of engineering? Some observers have speculated it may be due to the difficulties of balancing a demanding career with family life. Others have ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Income inequality and distrust foster academic dishonesty

College professors and students are in an arms race over cheating. Students find new sources for pre-written term papers; professors find new ways to check the texts they get for plagiarized material. But why are all these ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Developing robots that can teach humans

When it comes to communication, sometimes it's our body language that says the most--especially when it comes to our eyes.

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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