Sixth graders taught to see transition turmoil as ‘normal, temporary’ perform better in class A new study by education researchers at UW–Madison shows that proactively addressing students’ anxieties with clear and cost-effective messaging early in the school year can lead to a lasting record of higher grades, better attendance, and fewer behavioral problems for sixth …
During her time as a high school Spanish teacher, Jennifer Seelig wondered how the community’s relationship with the school affects learning and instruction. That was the topic she chose for her dissertation on rural schools, after she’d returned to school to get a Ph.D. from UW–Madison’s Department of Education Policy Studies within the School of Education. In …
Over the next two years, a team of education researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will use a new $1.8 million grant to learn significantly more about college internships and how students of color enter the workforce from college. Awarded to the Center for Research on College to Workforce Transitions (CCWT) in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research, …
Getting past the basic “yes” or “no” question on college internships — just asking whether a student did one or not — to get a deeper understanding of the “whys” and “what-ifs” around these on-the-job experiences is at the heart of a new working paper co-authored by UW–Madison’s Matthew Hora, a research scientist with the …
Students may learn more in mixed-gender groups than when they work solely with members of their own gender, a study released by a group of researchers with UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research indicates. The study was led by UW-Madison’s Sadhana Puntambekar, who is a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. Preliminary results of …
The 2014 International Colloquium on Black Males in Education, a research gathering set to explore the global dynamics of black males in the educational pipeline, runs Oct. 1-4 at Morehouse College in Atlanta. The event’s lead organizer is Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB), an education research laboratory based out of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research …
Herbert J. Klausmeier, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of educational psychology who played the leading role in founding the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, passed away on May 20 at the age of 98. After earning a Doctor of Education degree from Stanford University in 1949, Klausmeier started his academic career at the University of Northern Colorado in 1949 …