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08-03-13

Tags:Education psy145 reading Teaching At the end of the YouTube Reading story, the question was the Minnesota reading instruction competence assessment was. From the statute page:
4.14    Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 122A.18, is amended by adding a subdivision 4.15to read: […]

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08-03-13

Tags:Education journalism psy145 reading Teaching A classic example of PR around reading politics. Watch how the reporter baits with YouTube and switch to promote a piece of legislation.  
Woodbury Bulletin | Mother uses YouTube to help convey literacy message
A Woodbury mother has turned to the website YouTube to spread the word about […]

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08-03-13

Tags:Education math Teaching Like the Reading Panel back in 2000, this Math panel report is likely to have significant impace on math education in the US. The goals, though, are moderate:

Benchmarks in Math Education Fluency With Whole Numbers
1 By the end of Grade 3, students should be proficient with the addition and subtraction of whole […]

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08-03-07

Tags:Education Linguistics Teaching Watch List
UCTV–University of California Television has lots of back programs online, via YouTube or podcasts. Here are a couple of interesting ones:
http://uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=11187
Grey Matters: Understanding Language (#11187; 58 minutes; 7/19/2006) Why are humans the only species to have language? Is there […]

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08-02-15

Tags:Psy97 psychology Teaching
BJS: Basic Causality & Animacy Demo
For our review article, we also created an analogue of the infamous ‘perceptual animacy’ demonstration of Heider and Simmel (1944). This is provided here both with symmetric ‘blocks’ as shapes, and also with oriented ‘darts’ as shapes. Though Heider & Simmel did not study these […]

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07-12-17

Tags:Education Paperville reading Teaching Twilight of the Books: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
Twilight of the Books
What will life be like if people stop reading?
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07-12-12

Tags:psychology Research Teaching fMRI in the public eye
Nat Rev Neurosci. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2006 July 31.
Published in final edited form as:

Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005 February; 6(2): 159–164.
doi: 10.1038/nrn1609.
Copyright notice and Disclaimer
fMRI in the public eye
Eric Racine
The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, 701 Welch Road, Building A, Suite 1105, Palo […]

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07-12-08

Tags:Psy97 psychology Teaching Childhood Development Resources for Parents - Children’s Learning and Cognitive Development - HelloFelix.com

 
 
 
Dinosaurs, Turtles, and Overimitation
When do children have a harder time solving simple puzzles than chimps? In a research study that will be published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yale developmental psychologists Derek […]

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07-11-28

Tags:Education Teaching
PIRLS 2006

PIRLS 2006 International Report: IEA’s Progress in International Reading Literacy Study in Primary School in 40 CountriesNovember 2007. Ina V.S. Mullis, Michael O. Martin, Ann M. Kennedy, and Pierre […]

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07-11-14

Tags:Education English reading Teaching UK beat the US in admitting failure of reading reform … that would have been a catchy news article title. The truth is, neither government will admit anything. Billions of pounds or dollars were spent and little is gained. That’s all.  
Ten years of bold education boasts now look […]

">Ten years of bold education boasts now look sadly hollow | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited
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07-10-29

Tags:psychology Teaching Two particularly striking ones.
One from http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com, winner of this year’s Best Visual Illusion Contest.

1st prize - © 2007 Kingdom, Yoonessi & Gheorghiu
And the next from; by way of Kevin’s blog; the original source […]

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07-10-08

Tags:Research Teaching Matthew Nisbit  & Dietram A. Scheufele have a cover story for The Scientist on Framing science communication. It starts with a quote from Larry Page, Google Co-founder, that "science has a serious marketing problem." Here’s the take home message:
The Scientist : The Future of Public Engagement

Tailoring communication efforts to fit with publics […]

">The Scientist: To Frame or Not to Frame

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07-09-30

Tags:Education eye movement google Profiles psychology Teaching Watch List
Tried "eye movements" subject:"Reading, Psychology of" - Google Book Search today and I was impressed with what Google offers. They do not offer PDF downloads, but google’s fulltext search is better than Acrobat.

">Google Books, full text, albeit older
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07-09-25

Tags:language evolution Linguistics Paperville psychology Teaching Commentary on a new paper on FoxP2.
Babel’s Dawn: The Latest on the FoxP2 Gene

Echolocating bats fly in the crowded darkness and find food.
Surprising news from China finds extensive indications of evolution in the so-called language gene, FOXP2, among bats that use echolocation to find prey on […]

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07-09-25

Tags:Education Teaching The Nation’s Report Card - National Assessment of Educational Progress - NAEP

 
State performance:

NAEP provides a number of useful ways to view data on their newly designed web site.  Washington DC was the dead last in 4th grade reading. But did you know that DC While student out performe the next best state […]

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07-09-21

Tags:Education NCLB Teaching Stacey Anderton, a teacher at Saegertown Junior-Senior High School, Meadville, PA, wrote in to protest an earlier article critisizing NCLB.

Meadville Tribune - LOCAL COLUMN: Teachers, students demoralized? Local school says ‘No!’
As an award-winning teacher myself, I read with dismay Miller’s account of the teacher who wept because his ability […]

">How NCLB empowered an award-winning teacher

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07-09-21

Tags:Education Linguistics Paperville psychology Teaching Is ‘Do Unto Others’ Written Into Our Genes? - New York Times

In a series of recent articles and a book, “The Happiness Hypothesis,” Jonathan Haidt, a moral psychologist at the University of Virginia, has been constructing […]

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07-09-19

Tags:brain Chinese evolution Linguistics orthography Paperville Teaching
One of the sites I silently track, Developing Intelligence has a post on the Visual Word Form Area.
How is it possible that we have such seemingly "dedicated hardware" for visual word recognition if writing hasn’t been around long enough for this mechanism to […]

">Developing Intelligence : The Visual Word Form Area of the Left Fusiform Gyrus
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07-09-18

Tags:Education statistics Teaching Some interesting statistics. Nothing new, but still useful. How one interprets the data, though, is often up to the reporter. The original is (should be, not working as of now) at www.oecd.org/edu/eag2007
FT.com / World - OECD criticises waste in education spending

The annual Education at a Glance Report said that of all […]

">OCED: Education at a Glance

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07-09-11

Tags:psychology Research Teaching Reviewing a manuscript using Structural Equational Modeling, I was reminded an old idea that I haven’t revisited for a long while.

The Nomological Network
 

The nomological network is an idea that was developed by Lee Cronbach and Paul Meehl in 1955 (Cronbach, L. and Meehl, P. (1955). Construct validity in […]

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