A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

Hands-on, minds-on learning experiences help ensure that students gain a deep understanding of science concepts.

The huge information-processing capacities of computers make it possible to use them to adapt mechanical teaching routines to the needs and the past performance of the individual student ...

As the coronavirus has infected millions of Americans, the news media have become saturated with numbers: new infection cases, hospitalization rates, death tolls, and vaccine trial results. Many ...

WASHINGTON — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have launched the Collaborative for Advancing Science Teaching and Learning in K-12 (CASTL-K12), a new activity that will ...

Students are struggling to learn science during the pandemic, even as they find it increasingly interesting and relevant to their lives, according to new research highlighted at the annual American ...

As a doctoral student at the University of Washington in Seattle, biologist Michelle Smith spent a lot of time sorting fruit flies under the microscope. But she often found her mind wandering to her ...

Growing up near the World Bank’s agricultural development project in Anyigba (present day Kogi State, Nigeria), Mark Akubo and his friends would visit the aerodrome to watch light planes take off and ...

Zoubeida R. Dagher, professor in University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), remembers the childhood joy she felt as she helped her brother with his homemade ...

The new results from the Nation’s Report Card show that only 29% of eighth graders are proficient in science, down from 33% in 2019. Perhaps even more concerning is that only 42% of students say they ...

Science Communication is an umbrella term for anything related to sharing science with others. The traditional methods for communicating science have included the classic PowerPoint lectures or ...