The effects of three interventions designed to boost academic achievement among mastery-oriented students were evaluated on interest-based studying, social desirability, and perceived goal difficulty.

Thirty fourth-grade and 30 kindergarten children were presented with a 75%-25% probability learning task. Marbles were given for correct responses and were removed for incorrect responses. The ...

Transferring knowledge through a chain of generations is a behavior not exclusive to humans, according to new research findings that for the first time have shown chimpanzees exhibit generational ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

Relating brain activity to behavior is an ongoing aim of neuroimaging research as it would help scientists understand how the brain begets behavior — and perhaps open new opportunities for ...

Researchers develop deep learning toolkit for high-speed measurement of body posture in animals. A new toolkit goes beyond existing machine learning methods by measuring body posture in animals with ...