learning-science

Starting a developer bootcamp is both exciting and a bit overwhelming. On my first day, I didn’t expect to understand everything—but I was ready to learn how real developers think and work. Even though I couldn’t fully follow all the sessions later in the week, my first day still gave me a strong introduction to the journey I’m stepping into. What stood out for me The biggest realization was that…

Word scrambling is a deceptively simple mechanic. Rearrange the letters of a word, ask someone to restore the original — that's the entire game loop. But underneath that simplicity is a cognitive process that language researchers find genuinely interesting, and that developers building educational tools keep returning to. The Cognitive Mechanics of Unscrambling When a learner attempts to unscramb…

Svetlana (Lana) Jitomirskaya is a mathematics professor at Berkeley (Wikipedia, which puts her at two other schools, is out of date), and is one of 29 authors (I’m in there, too) on a paper in the Journal of Controversial Ideas, “In Defense of Merit in Science“. Lana is also a winner of the American Academy … Continue reading Berkeley math professor argues that we need to bring back SATs and othe…

Hey Dev.to community! 👋 I'm Yashwardhan Sharma, a 17-year-old tech builder from Jamshedpur, India, and the founder of Idea To Action Technologies . I wanted my first post here to address a massive elephant in the room regarding how tech is being taught to the next generation of creators. Right now, tech education is broken. Students are being forced to memorize archaic syntax and definitions of s…

A third grader's afternoon restlessness might predict their educational future. Researchers tracking students with wearable devices found that the ability to sustain self-control throughout the school day strongly correlates with lifelong academic achievement.

Every year, millions of students open YouTube, find a Python tutorial, watch three hours of someone else coding, and then close the laptop feeling like they learned something. They didn't. They watched someone else learn. That's not the same thing. This is the quiet crisis in programming education right now — and it's happening across every platform students trust. Udemy. Coursera. freeCodeCamp. …

Every finals season I'd end up doing the same algebra on a notes app: "I have a 91% in homework (20%), 84% on the midterm (30%)... what do I need on the final (50%) to get an A-?" So I built GradeHQ to do it for me — and then kept adding to it until it became a real side project. Live: gradehq.vercel.app Code: github.com/yashmitb/gradecalc (MIT) What it does Add your courses with weighted categor…

The study examines the employment outcomes and skill relevance of Adama Science and Technology University’s 2024 graduating cohort. Using a mixed-methods approach involving 251 graduates from 15 departments, the research evaluates the transition from higher education to the Ethiopian workforce.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07915-4 What makes students hide knowledge during peer assessments? The role of assessment experience

By Carlos Cámara-Menoyo The combination of domain knowledge, technical expertise and profound understanding of research makes RSEs a versatile and diverse profile that can contribute in many ways to make research better. Many RSEs are involved in the teaching of methods, technologies or skills (i.e, Digital Research Competencies) needed for research. In a context where scholarly disciplines are i…

IntroductionThe professional identity of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers is increasingly shaped by evolving educational reforms, institutional expectations, and professional development opportunities. Despite growing scholarly interest, the interrelationship between teacher attitudes, professional growth, and institutional support remains conceptually fragmented.MethodsThis systemati…

To understand the experience of secondary science co-teachers implementing new science standards, the roles they assume in the classroom, and the degree of parity they exhibit in their work, we examined one pair of co-teachers in a case study via questionnaires, video and audio recorded lessons, and teacher interviews. Specifically, this research addresses the following questions: (1) What roles …

IntroductionDigital transformation is reshaping academic work, governance, and professional identities in higher education in profound and often contradictory ways. This paper examines how these processes unfold across different phases of digitalization, with particular attention to the tension between emergency-driven change and its longer-term institutionalization.MethodsThe study draws on find…

This study is aimed at identifying the scientific and pedagogical foundations of the integration of augmented reality, AR technologies into the system of dual vocational education and assessing their impact on the production practical and professional competencies of students. The results of a systematic analysis showed that AR technologies are an effective tool for combining theory and practice,…

Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) has increasingly been adopted as a quality determinant of education that affects learning and health outcomes. This study reviews literature on the conceptual synthesis, theory integration, Indicator clarification of the impact of WASH on quality education. A narrative review method was adopted for this study. Desk-based review of literature was used…

Higher education institutions are facing a growing challenge: to train professionals who are not only technically competent, but also aware of their responsibility towards environmental sustainability. Despite the urgency of the global climate crisis and the commitments set out in the United Nations 2030 Agenda, sustainability education in universities remains fragmented and rarely integrated as …

IntroductionDigital platforms are increasingly used in higher education to deliver content, assess learning, and measure complex cognitive processes such as executive functions. Although the DeLone and McLean information systems success framework has been widely applied to e-learning platforms, empirical evidence on user-centered evaluation of digital cognitive assessment tools in higher educatio…

IntroductionThe present study aims at investigating the relationship between student-perceived teacher support and their L2 engagement through the mediating role of academic buoyancy in EFL contexts.MethodsIn doing so, a group of 415 Chinese EFL learners were recruited to complete three closed-ended questionnaires, assessing the levels of teacher support, academic buoyancy and L2 engagement. Besi…

Blended pedagogy, combining lectures and practice, is widely adopted in cultural education, with the expectation that combining multiple pedagogies leads to better cross-cultural adaptation. However, whether this assumption holds when pedagogies are combined at high frequency in the unique, high-context setting of Confucian classrooms remains unclear. Guided by Ward’s ABC (Affective, Behavioral, …