Higher Sound Levels in K-12 Classrooms Correlate to Lower Math Achievement Scores

Scientific and Engineering Practices in K – 12 Classrooms Understanding A Framework for K – 12 Science Education

This morning I watched Sesame Street. During the show, characters “acted like engineers” and designed a boat so a rock could float. In another segment, children asked questions and made predictions about the best design for a simple car. They then built a model car and completed an investigation to determine which design worked best when the cars went down inclined planes. Children also learned...

Fostering Metacognition in K-12 Classrooms: Recommendations for Practice

This article makes the case for why it is important for educators to intentionally foster students’ metacognition. Metacognition is often defined as thinking about thinking, but it is more complete to describe it as including knowledge, awareness, and control of one’s own cognition and human cognition in general. Two primary components of metacognition, knowledge of cognition and regulation of ...

Designing Classrooms to Maximize Student Achievement

Improving student achievement is vital for our nation’s competitiveness. Scientific research shows how the physical classroom environment influences student achievement. Two findings are key: First, the building’s structural facilities profoundly influence learning. Inadequate lighting, noise, low air quality, and deficient heating in the classroom are significantly related to worse student ach...

The effectiveness of educational technology applications for enhancing mathematics achievement in K-12 classrooms: A meta-analysis

Visual sustained attention and numerosity sensitivity correlate with math achievement in children.

In this study, we investigated in school-age children the relationship among mathematical performance, the perception of numerosity (discrimination and mapping to number line), and sustained visual attention. The results (on 68 children between 8 and 11 years of age) show that attention and numerosity perception predict math scores but not reading performance. Even after controlling for several...