Knowledge is a process of discovery: How constructivism changed education
Constructivism is an educational philosophy that deems experience as the best way to acquire knowledge.
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You did what with my donation? When donors feel betrayed by charities
When people learn that a charitable contribution they earmarked for a specific project was used for another cause, they feel betrayed—and often punish the charity, new research from Washington State University indicates.
Economics & Business
Dec 13, 2019
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Study gathers the first observation of leptonic decay D+→τ+ντ
The Beijing Spectrometer III (BESIII) collaboration, a large team of researchers from universities worldwide conducting particle physics studies has recently reported the first observation of the leptonic decay D+→τ+ντ. ...
New understanding of charge transport reveals an exotic quantum mechanical regime
In work that may have broad implications for the development of new materials for electronics, Caltech scientists for the first time have developed a way to predict how electrons interacting strongly with atomic motions will ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 10, 2019
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Study debunks the myth that an imposed floor on alcohol prices would punish the poor
There is no evidence that a minimum unit price on alcohol as a deterrent against binge drinking would effectively make the poor poorer, an ARC-funded UNSW study has found.
Social Sciences
Dec 10, 2019
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Global education rankings may overlook poor graduation rates
One standardized assessment tool has become the key benchmark for national governments to judge their schools' successes. But the academic rankings generated by the Program in International Student Assessment (PISA) are eclipsing ...
Education
Dec 3, 2019
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A fifth fundamental force could really exist, but we haven't found it yet
The universe is governed by four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces. These forces drive the motion and behavior of everything we see around us. At least, that's what we think. ...
General Physics
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A new framework could aid the search for heavy thermal dark matter
Astrophysicists have been searching for dark matter for several decades, but these searches have so far yielded disappointing results. In a recent study, two researchers at Weizmann Institute of Science and the Hebrew University ...
Shape of the universe: study could force us to rethink everything we know about the cosmos
No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of the planets were fundamental to the Copernican revolution, in which the sun replaced Earth at the centre ...
Astronomy
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Target practice: Perfecting the Mu2e production target
Before Mu2e, there was MECO.
General Physics
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