83 episódios
The Thumb Through Jeshua Noel
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Education research made approachable. Hosted by Jeshua D. Noel. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thumbthrough/support
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Museums as Classrooms - Evaluating Experiential Education Programs
We’re back! This episode is all about the effects of experiential education programs, those that take students out of the classroom and into a new learning environment, such as a museum or learning center. This is a summary and review of an article titled Museums as Classrooms: The Academic and Behavioral Impacts of “School in the Park,” conducted by Johanna Lacoe of UC Berkeley, as well as Gary D. Painter and Danielle Williams of USC. You can read their full article by copying and pasting the following link into your browser: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858420940309
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Do You Get The Picture?
Today’s episode covers a meta-analysis designed to quantify the impact of graphics specifically on reading comprehension, with surprising and interesting results.
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Teaching History Through Theater
Researchers argue that arts integration could make up for the decreased emphasis in arts and humanities instruction in public education; the idea is to teach core subject matter and skills by means of the arts and humanities, ultimately teaching about both.
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Instruction Quality or Working Condition? The Effects of Part-Time Faculty on Student Outcomes
More than half of community colleges are taught by part-time faculty. This study estimates the effects of part-time faculty vs full-time faculty on students’ current and subsequent course outcomes in developmental and gateway courses.
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Evaluating Descrubriendo la Lectura & Improving Literacy Skills of Spanish-Speaking First Graders
Despite the growing representation of Latino students in US schools, the education system continues to fail to identify reliable programs to serve Spanish-speaking English learners. DLL is an intervention that offers one-on-one native language literacy instruction for 12 to 20 weeks to each school’s lowest performing first graders, and we discuss its effectiveness here.
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Maternal Nutrition & Educational Outcomes (Special Study in Lowland Nepal)
This research focuses on the influence of the earliest factors in one’s childhood on overage attendance in Nepal, where this issue is understudied and growing more significant.
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