Professor Kraemer is part of a team that “developed a machine learning algorithm that can be used to measure how well a student understands a concept based on brain activity.” Read more at: https://interestingengineering.com/researchers-can-use-brain-activity-to-measure-how-well-you-understand-a-concept
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Congratulations to Clara Batchelder '19, the 2019 recipient of the Cameron-Glickenhaus Family Fund Prize. This prize is awarded to the student considered to be the most promising Education minor in terms of demonstrated commitment to an interdisciplinary, research-based approach to improving learning and Education for all students. With this award comes faculty recognition of hard work and achievement in all of our courses and Clara's commitment to the ideals of the department.
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Assistant Professor Sean Kang says repeated use of knowledge and training play a role in memory, as well as a few other tips in this NBC News
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Tine researches the gulf in academic success between students who live in poverty and those who don’t. “There are two aspects to that work,” she says. “We identify cognitive processes that underlie the income achievement gap, and we create interventions that address those inequities and can improve education and learning and development for all.” To that end, she and three undergraduate students are designing and assembling Build-It Boxes kits, aimed at sharpening STEM skills for 300 rural...
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WalletHub analyzed U.S. school systems to determine the top-performers, and asked a panel of researchers and experts, including Professor Jamshed Bharucha, for their insights. The findings can be found at https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-schools/5335/#jamshed-bharucha
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Kevin Griffee '19, one of Professor Coch's lab assistants, describes current research in the Reading Brains Lab: "Our research sheds light on how people process rhymes, and how they process reading in general, information we believe is valuable in teaching kids to read." An article about this work can be found at ...
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Professor Andrew Garrod was recognized for promoting cultural understanding through the arts. See
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I Am Where I Come From, edited by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Melanie Benson Taylor (Cornell University Press, 2017) is recommended as one of PBS Newshour Art Beat's 19 summer books that will keep you up all night reading. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/19-summer-books-will-keep-night-reading
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Sean Kang was recently awarded a grant by the National Endowment for Financial Education to investigate “Making it stick: Using cognitive science and technology to enhance the impact of financial education.”