A new book released today, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, is already creating quite A new book released today, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, is ...

Selective schools with a higher average achievement level may exert a negative influence on students’ long-term success, finds a new longitudinal study of data from Project TALENT. The nationally ...

When people can choose a successful teacher to help them learn a complex strategy, efficient strategies accumulate and spread through a culture more easily, according to a new social learning ...

Two news items should give us pause about how we are teaching and learning civics. Item No. 1: American eighth-graders' civics scores have declined for the first time ever, according to just-released ...

Primates have the remarkable ability to rapidly adjust or modify associations between visual cues and specific motor responses. Whereas little is known as to how such adjustments in behavioral policy ...

When toddlers learn new words, they’re constantly assessing the reliability of adults. That’s called selective social learning. “There is a decade of research that proves infants can differentiate ...

A recent survey conducted by CivicScience reveals intriguing insights into Americans’ learning preferences, highlighting stark contrasts between those who love to learn and those who do not. The ...

People with schizophrenia show probabilistic association learning impairment in conjunction with abnormal neural activity. The selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) raloxifene preserves neural ...