Education

How does high population growth affect gross domestic product? Economics students are all too familiar with exam questions like this. As free-text questions, they require not only specialist knowledge but also the ability to think and argue economically. However, grading these answers is a time-consuming task for university assistants: Each... Read more

When Angela R. Watson began to research homeschooling—specifically, which U.S. parents decide to educate their children outside of traditional school settings and why—she found that the topic was essentially a data void. This was back in 2019, when Watson had just earned her Ph.D. in education policy—deciding, after initially getting... Read more

In a remarkably short time, generative AI has surged into the university world—but what does this really mean for higher education? New research from the Department of Communication and Learning in Science at Chalmers University of Technology explores how this development might unfold through scenario-based analysis.... Read more

McGill researchers who examined the writing skills of teenagers in Montreal found that the performance in French of English–French bilinguals was similar to that of near-monolingual francophones. Bilinguals were defined as teens raised in anglophone or bilingual (English–French) households and those who had had significant exposure to French through attending... Read more

When it rains, streams rise. When it stops, they fall.... Read more

As students settle into the new school year, one question looms large: How will artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT affect their learning? Seeking answers, a team from Johns Hopkins recently introduced a chatbot into a classroom of middle and high school students to act as a co-tutor and study the... Read more

Children placed in school "isolation rooms" are losing learning time, feeling cut off from their peers and suffering damage to their well-being, according to new research from The University of Manchester.... Read more

Nursing education is not only about clinical skills. It also shapes the values, attitudes, and sense of responsibility of those who provide care. In Japan, most nursing programs follow government-prescribed curricula that emphasize qualifications, leaving limited space for universities to articulate their own missions. Catholic universities, however, stand apart. Their... Read more

Australia's engineering skills gap and labor shortage is the highest it's been for more than a decade. New Swinburne research could explain why.... Read more

Heavy teaching loads, shrinking university budgets and expanding workload expectations have fueled stress and burnout among professors and other university employees in recent years.... Read more

Educators' concerns are running high when it comes to AI and how it may undermine teaching and learning. But what if teachers could find ways to use AI to measurably help students learn, rather than simply do their work for them?... Read more

Imagine a student using a writing assistant powered by a generative AI chatbot. As the bot serves up practical suggestions and encouragement, insights come more easily, drafts polish up quickly and feedback loops feel immediate. It can be energizing. But when that AI support is removed, some students report feeling... Read more

Sports are a massive—and growing—economic force in the United States and around the globe, opening new opportunities for careers.... Read more

A team of researchers at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has developed and applied a targeted intervention for repeating students to ascertain why a significant proportion fail again and to identify strategies to help reverse this trend. The project was carried out as part of a research project with... Read more

What do puzzles, gymnastics, writing and using maps all have in common?... Read more