Content about Educational psychology
From the literary outpourings of poets to the breakthroughs of inventors, many of us have this idea that creative brilliance is something that just happens. In reality, creativity is not some force that acts upon us — although it can sometimes feel like it — and it isn’t only reserved for artists, inventors or “creative types.”
In August 2008, Congress created “a new national center founded to spur breakthrough technologies that can help transform the way teachers teach and students learn.” Digital Promise, also known as the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies, brings leaders and innovators from tech giants, such as Qualcomm, to educational institutions, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in order to bring technology and
Given the recent upgrade and completion of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) testing across high schools in the state of Texas, it is no surprise that standardized testing at the university level is being discussed.
New standardized testing replacing the state-mandated TAKS test is raising concerns among the academic community.
Representatives from various areas of academia gathered on campus Thursday to discuss the implications of the new State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, that students in grades three through 12 will begin taking this month.
I am writing in response to a story that ran earlier this month titled “Students with disabilities seek better accommodations from UT.” Overall I thought the article was very well done. It shared student concerns while also reflecting the work that the University is doing to try and meet students’ needs and uphold the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Executive Director Stephani Wolfe, left, and Disabilities Services Coordinator Justin Rogers, middle, listen to students give their imput during an open forum of Services for Students with Disabilities Tuesday night in the Student Services Building.
Do schools kill creativity? Ken Robinson, TED talks lecturer, international educational adviser and author of “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything,” argues that they do.
At a large public university such as UT, teaching is important. We have 38,000 undergraduates enroll in classes each year to learn, and the University spends money attracting professors who do their best to make classes worth students’ tuition.
When architecture professor Larry Speck helped design Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, he tried to prevent the crowded feeling he often felt walking through ordinary airports, he said.
“I hated the feeling of being a rat in a small, confined space,” he said. “I thought, ‘How can we make an airport with open spaces, without linear tunnels and crowding?’”
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The TAAS generation is a dying breed.
Consider this: Next year’s crop of freshmen never touched a TAAS test. They would have been third graders when the TAKS replaced the TAAS as the state’s answer to the question: Are our children learning? Now even the TAKS test is defunct, replaced and revamped by the so-called STAAR test.
In hopes of encouraging faculty to apply student-centered teaching techniques to their classrooms, educational psychology professor Marilla D. Svinicki lectured on how professors could apply recent discoveries in psychology to their curriculum as part of the Academic Transformation lecture series by the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Last week at a town hall at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama decried the use of standardized testing. “Too often what we have been doing is using these tests to punish students or to, in some cases, punish schools,” Obama said. He went on to comment on how standardized testing forces teachers into “teaching to the test.”
Addie Lasseigne, lead buddy ambassador for Best Buddies Texas, said her peers in middle school called her names for having an intellectual disability and made her not want to go to school.
Lasseigne, who has an intellectual disability, spoke at an event protesting the use of the word “retarded” to describe the community Sunday. The event is part of a weeklong series to spread awareness of respectful language when referring to people with intellectual disabilities.
If current higher education trends continue, the current generation of college-age Americans will be less educated than their parents for the first time in U.S. history, according to a report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement.
According to the study, 45 percent of students who enter community college earn a degree six years later and slightly more than 50 percent of first-time, full-time students in community colleges return for their second year. The authors surveyed more than 400,000 students at 658 institutions.
A program to improve language impairments of bilingual first grade students, initiated by UT speech-language researchers, received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
During the first year, researchers will work with 24 Georgetown students to test the effectiveness of the language intervention program, which they believe will lead to increased English literacy. Program instructors will teach bilingual children devices to help them learn the basic phonics of English.
