https://phys.org/science-news/education en-us Phys.org provides latest news on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education Remote teams are less likely to make breakthrough discoveries compared to those who work onsite, according to research led by the universities of Oxford and Pittsburgh into the rise of remote collaborations among scientists and inventors across the world. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-remote-collaborations-scientific-breakthroughs-co-led.html Economics & Business Education Wed, 29 Nov 2023 11:00:01 EST news620476408 New research from the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center suggests that Ph.D. graduates in science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM) in the U.S. who became disabled before age 25 earn $14,360 less per year in academia than those without disabilities. They are also underrepresented at higher faculty levels (such as deans and presidents) and in tenured positions. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-phd-disabilities-underpaid-underrepresented-academia.html Economics & Business Education Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:07:03 EST news620323621 Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and Loyola University have discovered that personality does not seem to have much influence when it comes to choosing social friendships at school, which are based more on the closeness of our contacts, according to a study recently published in the journal PNAS. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-people-friendships-school.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:44:00 EST news620311437 A new study shows that female academics are significantly underrepresented in winning academic prizes and having awards named after them. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-female-academics-prizes-award-woman.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:26:31 EST news619806390 An analysis of 5.8 million authors across all scientific disciplines shows that the gender gap is closing, but there is still a long distance to go. The new research by John Ioannidis of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICs) at Stanford University, US, and colleagues, was published Nov. 21 in the journal PLOS Biology. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-most-cited-scientists-men-gender-gap.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:00:02 EST news619778116 Success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) demands keeping up with the latest tools and techniques. The AI boom, for example, has made coding and data management skills integral. But going back to school isn't an option for most scientists. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-framework-aims-short-stem-effective.html Education Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:30:29 EST news619785026 U.S. college students majoring in STEM fields currently graduate about 20% less often than their non-STEM peers, a resounding clarion call for better assisting those students, especially in their first few semesters. Though systemic, long-term shifts—away from lecturing, toward the sharing of evidence-based teaching practices—should help, the inertia of academia can sometimes slow their adoption. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-ai-based-intervention-undergrads-stem.html Education Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:15:02 EST news619096501 In a new study, researchers developed a series of artificial intelligence tools that can scan through essays in college applications, picking out evidence of key personal traits. That includes qualities like leadership and perseverance. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-ai-college-essay-complicated.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:15:04 EST news618660901 Women faculty are more likely to leave academia than men faculty throughout all career stages in U.S. universities, University of Colorado Boulder researchers revealed in the most comprehensive analysis of retention in academia to date. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-analysis-reveals-harsh-workplace-climate.html Economics & Business Education Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:00:01 EDT news617010001 In an era plagued by malevolent sources flooding the internet with misrepresentations, distortions, manipulated imagery and flat-out lies, it should come as some comfort that in at least one arena there is an honor system set up to ensure honesty and integrity: the peer-review process for scholarly publications. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-large-language-peer-review.html Education Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:04:12 EDT news616939438 Researchers Jayne Spiller and Camilla Gilmore at the Center for Mathematical Cognition, University of Loughborough, U.K., have investigated the intersection of sleep and mathematical memory, finding that sleep after learning improves recall. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-mathematical-bedtime-stories-memory.html Mathematics Education Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:20:02 EDT news615547087 As much of the U.S. broils under record-setting temperatures, battles wildfires and is rocked by fierce storms, a new study suggests that the science learning standards for many public schools are not preparing young people to understand and respond to problems such as climate change that will dramatically impact their lives and those of millions of people around the globe. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-state-politics-industry-planetary-health.html Education Political science Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:07:05 EDT news615053222 A new study from Western researchers examining the impacts of the school closures and remote learning on elementary students during the COVID-19 pandemic has tapped the perspective of a critical group: teachers. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-students-low-income-households-experienced-losses.html Economics & Business Education Wed, 27 Sep 2023 09:44:03 EDT news615026641 Biomedical research aimed at improving human health is particularly reliant on publicly funded basic science, according to a new analysis boosted by artificial intelligence. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-machine-analysis-citations-highlights-importance.html Education Political science Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:44:03 EDT news614342641 A major new study has revealed that American teenagers are more likely than any other nationality to brag about their math ability. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-teenagers-exaggerate-math-abilities.html Mathematics Education Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:00:01 EDT news613915822 Overconfidence has long been recognized as a critical problem in judgment and decision making. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-knowledge-great-confidence-reveals-relationship.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:17:03 EDT news613912621 So much for the powerful feminist messaging in the new Barbie movie. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-kids-gender-roles-preschool.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:30:01 EDT news613740337 Experiences of anti-Asian racism and feelings of invisibility are common among Asian American medical students, according to a Yale-led study based on interviews with students at more than a dozen schools in the U.S. The experiences, say the researchers, highlight the need to establish a more inclusive medical school learning environment. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-anti-asian-racism-medical-students.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:04:15 EDT news613656251 Scientific research depends on collaboration between researchers and institutions. But over the past decade, there has been a surge of large-scale research projects involving extraordinarily large numbers of researchers, from dozens to hundreds, all working on a common project. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-big-team-science-blueprint-collaboration.html Education Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:26:04 EDT news613391161 Calculus is the study of change. Calculus teaching methods, however, have changed little in recent decades. Now, FIU research shows a new model could improve calculus instruction nationwide. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-revamped-calculus.html Mathematics Education Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:25:27 EDT news612782721 Exciting a brain region using electrical noise stimulation can help improve mathematical learning in those who struggle with the subject, according to a new study from the Universities of Surrey and Oxford, Loughborough University, and Radboud University in The Netherlands. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-brain-key-boosting-math.html Mathematics Education Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:22:18 EDT news612710532 In the case of boredom, we think of many situations in life but intuitively not of exams. However, an international team of academics led by Thomas Götz from the University of Vienna has now studied exactly this phenomenon of test boredom for the first time and found remarkable results. According to the study, school students are actually very bored during exams. The study also showed that utter boredom has a negative effect on exam results. The research results have been published recently in the Journal of Educational Psychology. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-results-students-exams.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:53:40 EDT news612629617 In the innovation economy, individuals with STEM Ph.D.s are a critical source of human capital, with nearly 60% of Ph.D.s in STEM fields—such as engineering, chemistry and biology—being employed outside of universities. These students are increasingly contributing to commercial science through patenting. New research from MIT Sloan School of Management and Copenhagen Business School has investigated the training of these Ph.D. students to better understand the pipeline and preparation of new inventors. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-gender-disparities-limit-chances-women.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:55:52 EDT news612456945 ChatGPT may match or even exceed the average grade of university students when answering assessment questions across a range of subjects including computer science, political studies, engineering, and psychology, reports a paper published in Scientific Reports. The research also found that almost three-quarters of students surveyed would use ChatGPT to help with their assignments, despite many educators considering its use to be plagiarism. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-chatgpt-outperform-university-students-assignments.html Education Thu, 24 Aug 2023 11:00:03 EDT news612093601 A team of scientists from over a dozen of the nation's top bioengineering programs have created a roadmap for developing and implementing a hiring process aimed at increasing diversity among biomedical engineering faculty. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-national-network-biomedical-six-step-roadmap.html Other Education Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:20:25 EDT news611310018 A data analysis of Queensland children has found that those who attended pre-school displayed lower levels of developmental vulnerabilities based on an educational measure mapping progress during their first year. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-highlights-pre-school-regional-children.html Education Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:15:20 EDT news611309714 UK researchers are calling on higher education institutes and research funders to adopt a new set of recommended actions to address the substantial under-representation of Ph.D. students from ethnic minority backgrounds. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-action-boost-diversity-postgraduate-science.html Education Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:22:24 EDT news610280534 Researchers are more likely to pen scientific papers with co-authors of the same gender, a pattern that cannot be simply explained by the varying gender representation across scientific disciplines and time, according to joint research from Cornell and the University of Washington. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-same-gender-co-authors.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:59:58 EDT news610192796 When Iowa State University switched from in-person to remote learning halfway through the spring semester of 2020, psychology professor Jason Chan was worried. Would unsupervised, online exams unleash rampant cheating? https://phys.org/news/2023-07-evidence-online-unsupervised-exams.html Social Sciences Education Mon, 31 Jul 2023 11:11:31 EDT news610020686 Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the historical evolution of the world's languages share a common cognitive foundation—a core knowledge base where patterns of children's language innovation can predict patterns of language evolution, and vice versa. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-common-cognitive-foundation-child-language.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:00:01 EDT news609683338