William R. Penuel is a professor of learning sciences and human development in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. His current research examines conditions needed to ...

Since the pandemic, the urgency of designing and scaling evidence-based products to support learning recovery has become more pronounced. Educational institutions are grappling with unprecedented ...

For centuries, adults may have relied on pedagogies that promote rote memory for the learning of foreign languages through word associations and grammar rules. This contrasts sharply with child ...

Students “lost out on about 35% of a normal school year’s worth of learning” when in-person learning stopped during the public health crisis, according to a paper published Monday in the journal ...

Evidence accumulation models have enabled strong advances in our understanding of decision-making, yet their application to examining learning has not been common. Using data from participants ...

Zanaki Primary School is a public primary school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.It received a School Improvement Grant in 2016 financed by the World Bank for its substantially improved student performance ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine some of the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords and jargon, our goal is ...

There are many ways to teach school students. But research shows only some will significantly improve learning. While most teachers want to use evidence-based practices, they face many challenges that ...

A key step in the assessment cycle is gathering and analyzing evidence. Employing the appropriate data collection techniques for assessment is an important step in this process. Faculty and staff are ...

Adult learning theory is a manual for classroom diplomacy, not a map of the mind. Walk into any corporate leadership retreat or faculty development workshop, and you will encounter a familiar set of ...

A teacher finishes a complex explanation and a wave of synchronized nodding ripples through the room. "That makes sense," a student says. Shoulders relax as the tension of a difficult problem ...