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Intellect

Praising students in a classroom setting has big impact on their behavior

Aaron Sorenson
By Aaron Sorenson
January 29, 2020
The number of times a teacher compliments or recognizes a student’s good behavior, compared to how often the teacher reprimands the student, the more likely that student is going to stay focused on the task at hand.
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Intellect

Want your kids to be more resilient and empathetic? Try sports, new study says

By Paul Swenson
October 15, 2019
Encouraging teenagers to participate in sports could help them face challenges now and in the future.
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Intellect

Love for a sister leads to passion for special education research

By Alexa Reimschussel
April 21, 2019
Bruna Goncalves, a student graduating with a bachelor’s degree in special education, found her passion for behavioral research through the love she has for her best friend and older sister, Barbara.
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Intellect

‘A way cool way to be’: BYU team gains insights into understudied group of children with autism

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
January 01, 2019
It’s a challenging proposition for anyone: Lie flat on your back, helmet covering half of your face, in a tight-quartered MRI capsule that would make even the non-claustrophobe jittery. Then try not to move for 45 minutes. For children and adolescents with autism and low verbal and cognitive performance (LVCP), that proposition has been nearly impossible without sedation — until now.
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Intellect

Women TEDx speakers receive more polarized comments than men

By Alexa Reimschussel
June 25, 2018
BYU researchers found that though most comments on TEDx and TED-Ed videos are neutral, women receive more of both positive and negative comments than men.

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Intellect

Teaching without training

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
July 18, 2017
Despite efforts from No Child Left Behind to promote “highly qualified” teaching, BYU research shows that just 36 percent of new science teachers are teaching only in their trained subject.

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Intellect

To type or not to type? That isn't really the question.

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
May 29, 2017
Schoolchildren have become accustomed to digital communication — think texting — but haven’t necessarily learned to switch off the habits formed in casual communication when using digital media for academic purposes.

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Intellect

Open textbooks: BYU researchers show free resources can provide an equivalent education and save students thousands

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
May 14, 2017
Dozens of studies from a team of BYU researchers show college students don't necessarily need to spend thousands of dollars on textbooks to get a high-quality education.

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Intellect

Build an underwater robot, learn STEM subjects

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 23, 2017
More than 800 elementary and middle school students descended on the Lehi Legacy Center pool last week, but none of them got in the water.
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Intellect

Salad bars in public schools: How to get kids to use them

March 06, 2017
Thanks to a national initiative, salad bars are showing up in public schools across the country. Now a BYU researchers is trying to figure out how to get kids to eat from them.

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Intellect

New study links brain stem volume and aggression in autism

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
February 08, 2017
New research from BYU’s autism experts is providing clues into the link between aggression and autism — clues the team hopes will eventually lead to more effective intervention.

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Intellect

Picking teams and picking music in P.E.

By Alec Sears
February 01, 2017
BYU education professor David Barney recently published two studies on P.E. practices that can help kids have better experiences: listening to music and picking teams privately.

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Intellect

BYU school psychology program honored nationally for quantity and quality of research

December 14, 2016
Faculty in the BYU school psychology program do more, high-quality research than any other group of school psychology professors in the US, as stated by academic journal Research and Practice in the Schools.

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Intellect

Family size and education levels: the right support could reverse long-held theory

By Brooke Adams
May 18, 2016
More kids in your family. Less education. This pattern isn’t new, but a team of researchers led by BYU sociology professor Ben Gibbs studied why that educational dip occurs and found that there are exceptions to the trend.

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Character

Programs across campus shine in latest U.S. News grad school rankings

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 15, 2016
The latest version of the U.S. News grad school rankings saw big gains for BYU’s College of Nursing and the David O. McKay School of Education while the Marriott School and J. Reuben Clark Law School maintained high spots.

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Intellect

BYU study: Teaching children with disabilities to monitor their behavior, improves their behavior

By Carrie Duford
March 08, 2016
According to BYU professor Blake Hansen, children with developmental and intellectual disabilities are one of the most understudied populations in the US, but he’s working to change that.
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Intellect

Smart teens rub off on teammates

September 15, 2014
A new study of high school activities bears this message for incoming high school students: Play what the smart kids play.

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