Hayes, J.C. & Kraemer, D.J.M. (2017). Grounded understanding of abstract concepts: The case of STEM learning. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2:7.
Explores the connection between grounded cognition – the notion that knowledge partially relies on neural mechanisms pertaining to sensory and motoric processes – and STEM learning, evaluating several theories describing how the brain supports concept learning and proposing new research avenues awaiting exploration.
Steve Nelson, Valley News education columnist and contributor to Huffington Post and Head of Calhoun School in NYC will be talking about his new book First Do No Harm: Progressive Education in a Time of Existential Risk at the Norwich Bookstore on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 7pm. Open to the public.
The Norwich Bookstore states: "Current educational practices, particularly in the United States, instill conformity and compliance at a time when...
[more]Tine, M. & McMurchy, M. (2016). Different worlds: rural and urban poverty. School Administrator, 73(3), 38-40.
Outlines empirical differences between children growing up in rural versus urban poverty in terms of parental involvement, teacher characteristics, and cognition and considers the implications for school administrators in the two sectors.
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[more]Eglington, L. G., & Kang, S. H. K. (in press). Retrieval practice benefits deductive inference. Educational Psychology Review.
This study showed that practicing retrieval of information from memory (i.e., self-testing) can enhance one’s ability to later draw accurate deductive inferences from the information. The findings suggest that the benefits of retrieval practice extend to more complex, higher-order learning, and is not limited to rote memory.
Dholakia, A., Meade, G., & Coch, D. (2016). The N400 elicited by homonyms in puns: two primes are not better than one. Psychophysiology. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12762
To comprehend a pun involving a homonym (e.g., The prince with a bad tooth got a crown), both meanings of the homonym must be accessed and selected. Here, we investigated the N400 elicited by homonyms in the unique context of puns. N400 priming effects showed that the dual context of puns (e.g., the primes prince and tooth)...
Meade, G., & Coch, D. (2017). Word-pair priming with biased homonyms: N400 and LPC effects. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 41, 24-37. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.09.002
We investigated how biased homonyms (e.g., ruler), words with both a dominant meaning (a measurement tool) and a subordinate meaning (someone who rules), are processed without sentential context to bias one meaning or the other. We presented homonym prime words (e.g., ruler) followed 250 ms later by target words...
Rebecca Holcombe, instructor and former director of the Dartmouth Teacher Education Program, and current secretary of education for the State of Vermont, is the recipient of the 2017 Ongoing Commitment Social Justice Award. She was honored at the Conversations with Changemakers event on Thursday, January 26, in Filene Auditorium (see http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mlk/awards/ for details).