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The Thumb Through
by Jeshua Noel
Education research made approachable. Hosted by Jeshua D. Noel.
Episodes
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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...
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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...
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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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Product & Process in Innovative Young Adult Literature
When the social and technological landscapes change rapidly or dramatically, art and literature change alongside them. James B. Carter discusses this phenomenon in a contemporary context, addressing the technologies that have empowered authors to develop “multimodal reading experiences,” as well…
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Diversity in Science Fiction (and Fantasy) for Young Adult Readers
The literature on diversity and inclusion in young adult literature is plentiful. It is often rich in emotional impact and meticulous in its attention to detail. However, outside of acknowledgement and advocacy, what high quality work is actively being done to provide readers with characters and...
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Digital vs Print - How Reading Habits are Influenced by the Medium
Reading online and diving into a book are clearly very different experiences, but what specific aspects of the reading process are impacted by such a change in medium? Today’s article is all about that. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2liuQcPLwnWYLKOisfXCmW Apple Podcasts:...
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Making Sense of “STEM Education” in K-12 Contexts
What does STEM mean to you? The purpose of this research was to discover the similarities and differences in what teachers consider to be STEM education, and how they conceptualize it as a whole. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2liuQcPLwnWYLKOisfXCmW Apple Podcasts:...
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Professional Learning on Twitter
Twitter allows temporal engagement patterns that fit teachers’ individual contexts, professional needs, and learning preferences to engage in teacher learning both “just in time” and “just for me” instead of a traditional “just in case” learning approach. Spotify:...
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How School and District Leaders Access, Perceive, and Use Research
Today we’re discussing the first national survey of its kind to shed light on research use among a critical group of policy makers: local education leaders. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2liuQcPLwnWYLKOisfXCmW Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-thumb-through...
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Understanding Support Staff Distribution in Public Schools
Because traditional body count ratios do not account for support staff who work in multiple schools, such ratios seem to substantially overestimate the intensity of school psychology and social work resources available to students. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2liuQcPLwnWYLKOisfXCmW…
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On Teacher Development in Rural China
The total number of full-time teachers in rural areas in China has decreased from 3.23 million in 2012 to 2.81 million in 2017, with an averagely decreasing rate of 2.754 %, annually. Meanwhile, the illiteracy and semi-illiteracy rate of the rural young and middle-aged labor force is as high as...
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How Perfomance Goals Affect Cheating
Cheating threatens the reliability of test results, the meaning of grades, and, most importantly, the learning of students. If student performance is evaluated based on appearance of results, rather than on the process and strategies employed to solve problems along the way, students are more...
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The Debated Role of Calligraphy in Learning Chinese
One-third of course time in the average CFL course is spent on handwriting practice. What impact does this practice really have on the primary goals of word acquisition and communication? Researchers: Xiwen Lu, Korinn S. Ostrow, Neil T. Heffernan Spotify:...
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How Writing Shapes Thinking - A Critical Review
How Writing Shapes Thinking: A Study of Teaching and Learning was written by Judith Langer and Arthur Applebee and published in 1987 by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). This collaborative work is concerned primarily with the contributions of written language to learning…
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Clarity and Welcoming - The Composition Theory and Philosophy of Gerald Graff
As described on the front of his Francis Andrew March Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession of English Studies, “Graff invites all parties...to gather where the intellectual action is, to join the fray of arguments that connect books to life and give studies in the humanities...
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Online Courses Improve In-Seat Attendance
Today we’re discussing the research of Darling-Aduana on the categories of online learning for marginalized K-12 students and the impact of such courses on their attendance in school. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2liuQcPLwnWYLKOisfXCmW Apple Podcasts:...
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A Guide to Group Reading with Digital Books
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How Universities are Tracking Prospective Students Online - Taught Off The Press #24
Colleges are quietly ranking prospective students based on their personal data. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/14/colleges-quietly-rank-prospective-students-based-their-personal-data/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2liuQcPLwnWYLKOisfXCmW Apple Podcasts:...
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Why Preschoolers Need Math
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California Becomes First State to Push Back School Start Times - Taught off the Press #23
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How to Survive Recess in the Fall
Three pro tips on how to not freeze to death on the playground. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2liuQcPLwnWYLKOisfXCmW Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-thumb-through Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/thethumbthrough YouTube:...
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Animals That Heal - AVP Effects on Student Stress Levels
University students report high levels of stress. Although causal work is limited, one popular approach to promote stress relief is animal visitation programs (AVPs). Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2liuQcPLwnWYLKOisfXCmW Apple Podcasts:...
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High Tech Libraries, Personalizing K-12, Chicago Strikes, California’s College Athletes
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Pros and Cons of E-Readers in Early Childhood Education
Increasingly, children are engaging in early literacy experiences through digital devices. This raises questions about how electronic reading compares to print reading. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2liuQcPLwnWYLKOisfXCmW Apple Podcasts:...
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Taking Math Homework Online
Formative assessment is a frequently recommended practice; this intervention provides a practical, targeted way to do it. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2liuQcPLwnWYLKOisfXCmW Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/leaflet-for-educators-looking-to-learn-more/ Merchandise:...
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Tickle-Me-Zuckerberg, Slow Internet, and the Usefulness of EdTech - Today in Education #20
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Demystifying Tuition
This study examines how university websites present financial information to the public. Researchers sought to characterize patterns in the scope and quality of tuition information on institutional websites and to understand how these patterns might influence individuals’ conceptions of tuition…
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What Works in Early Elementary Science Education
This study estimates the degree to which time spent on science and the breadth of science topics/skills covered predict science achievement in the earliest grades of elementary school. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2liuQcPLwnWYLKOisfXCmW Apple Podcasts:...
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Contract Cheating, Workspace Education, and Student Visa Conundrums - Today in Education #20
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Genetics in Education
Genetics research is becoming more prominent and beginning to intersect with education research. While many previous intersections have been harmful, the current era of genetic research provides novel features and possibilities. Collaboration between those in the social and biomedical sciences...
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"How Writing Shapes Thinking" Ch. 9 (Leaflet Study #9)
Today we review the studies from each chapter we've looked at so far, as well as the conclusions drawn in the end. Much beyond the English classroom, writing supports more complex thinking and learning about the subjects that students are expected to learn. Written language makes a contribution…
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Today in Education #19 - Virtual Reality Field Trips, The SAT's Adversity Score, Debates over Gifted Education
The College Board has tweaked the Adversity Score, but can it undo the damage it’s caused? A fight over gifted education in New York is escalating to a national debate over school segregation. Chinese parents say intense competition forces them to send their children to after-school tutoring...
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Christ Tatem, Host of "Cross Examined Life" (Leaflet Talk #2)
Chris Tatem hosts Cross Examined Life, a podcast encouraging respectful disagreement and thorough discussion of issues. In this episode, we talk about free will, the illusion of linear time, gun control, the ideal age of death, and more. Listen to Cross Examined Life:...
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Today in Education #18 - Dirty Dirty Dorms, Wholesome Hashtags, and Student Loan Forgiveness for Disabled Veterans
Lots and lots to talk about... An online campaign named #ClearTheList is spreading on Instagram to help people pitch in to stock a teacher’s classroom for the start of the school year. The office of a black employee at the Department of Education was allegedly vandalized earlier this week in an...
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Barred by the Bell - The Impact of High School Start Times on Student Engagement
Bastian and Fuller set out to examine schools with varying start times, with the goal of answering two important questions. Do later high school start times predict students’ engagement with school and their achievement in school? Do later high school start times have larger impacts on the...
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“How Writing Shapes Thinking” Ch. 8 (Leaflet Study #8)
Researchers examine the relationship between what students do during study tasks and what they remember later.
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Today in Education #17 - K-12 Online, The Dilemma of Ethnic Studies, Delivery Robots on Campus
Good morning! Today we discuss the prospects of online public education, Google’s new additions to college search, the potential problems with implementing ethnic studies at the K-12 level, a proposed textbook merger, and how late-night pizza parties just got even cooler.
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Tony Vincent, Founder of Learning in Hand (Leaflet Talk #1)
Tony Vincent is a pioneer in digital learning .He had a classroom website before many classrooms had internet access.In 2005 started one of the first podcasts from an elementary school. Tony has authored books, produced videos, developed an iPad app, and blogged about learning and technology over...
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What Makes a Successful Transfer Student?
Over 80% of community college students plan to transfer to a four-year institution, but less than 35% achieve that goal. With this in mind, researchers set out to identify characteristics of students and institutions that entail success in transferring. Summary and review of: Jabbar et. al…
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“How Writing Shapes Thinking” Ch. 7 (Leaflet Study #7)
This chapter describes a deeper study into the effects of various classroom tasks on learning through text
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Today in Education #16 - Teacher Arrests Soar in China, Apple Turns Student ID’s Digital
Good morning! Today we’re discussing four articles, including claims that high-profile massacres have created ambient, worsening anxiety about gun violence on K–12 campuses, a Georgia superintendent who donated his bonus to pay for students’ college application fees, the “crackdown” on foreign...
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Academic Prospects for English Learner Students
Students classified as English Learners have maintained lower and high school graduation and 4-year college attendance rates in the United States since the classification was created. There are more than 4.8 million ELS in U.S. public schools. Only 67 percent graduation on time, and less than 20...
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“How Writing Shapes Thinking” Ch. 6 (Leaflet Study #6)
Student responses to note-taking, short answers, and essays look different, but is the thinking different? If so, how?
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Today In Education #15 - Dead Books, Imaginary Friends, and why Pedagogy Conflicts With Ed. Research
Good morning! Today we’re discussing three articles. “The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson. ~ Make-believe companions can teach children more than just how to play pretend. ~ Three Reasons Classroom Practice Conflicts With Evidence On How Kids Learn
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Evolving Roles of Scientists in Education
Advances in and implications of scientific research need to be communicated broadly, but few scientists receive training in communication/teaching of their findings. To what extent have positions for science education specialists as change agents within science departments persisted and evolved...
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“How Writing Shapes Thinking” Ch. 5 (Leaflet Study #5)
This chapter looks at the teachers as individual professionals in the midst of changing their approaches. - The extent to which teachers made changes in their conceptualization of writing as a tool for learning related to their ideas of their roles as teachers and the students roles as learners.
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Today in Education #14 - Teaching Students to Lie, Improving Middle Schools, New EdTech Marketplace
Good morning! Today we’re discussing a number of articles. The first deals with a group of academics who spent $1.35 on an effective program to make middle school less “awful.” We also discuss a new EdTech marketplace concept, the exploitation of certain financial aid loopholes, Alaska’s revoking...
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