The research, led by psychological scientist Tom Stafford of the University of Sheffield (UK), suggests that the way you practice is just as important as how…
“Science, economy and politics need reliable indicators for being informed about the current activities in research and for knowing where it goes to. This kind…
Teachers and parents like to use board games to teach skills that range from fair play to counting. When it comes to improving early number skills, a new…
The research brief “Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education,” authored by an interdisciplinary group of early childhood experts,…
In “Bioinformatics Algorithms – Part 1,” UC San Diego computer science and engineering professor Pavel Pevzner and his graduate students are offering a course…
How widespread is private tuition, and does it improve marks? To answer this question, a team led by educational scientist Hans-Ulrich Grunder from the…
Researchers are invited to submit project proposals based on access to the high performance hard and software provided by HPI. Project selection is carried out…
In response to the roaring success of their new “Digital School”, Leuphana University of Lüneburg will strive to focus on intensity and quality teaching for…
The funds will in particular focus on the research infrastructure, the recruitment of top-class researchers as well as the cooperation with experts on an…
The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” of Heidelberg University has set up four new junior research groups. The group leaders and…
“This is an impressive level of engagement in lifelong learning,” says Jon D. Miller, author of the latest issue of The Generation X Report. “It reflects the…
In 2012, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) was able to invest CHF 755 million in basic research, the highest amount in its sixty-year history….
A doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that negotiations about how to approach problems and tasks, and about how tools such as…
The EU strategy “Europe 2020“ encourages educational policymakers and educational practitioners in Europe to increasingly rely on evidence from research. How…
Children who failed to acquire a basic math skill in first grade scored far behind their peers by seventh grade on a test of the mathematical abilities needed…
In an article published today in EMBO reports two experts support the use of citation indicators that are based on percentiles, a statistical parameter that…
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