A recent study has investigated the impact of social media use on academic achievement among early adolescents. The University of Delaware researchers analyzed data from 1,459 participants and ...

Academic life is often described as a time of growth, discovery, and opportunity. For many students, however, it is also a period marked by intense pressure, constant deadlines, and high expectations.

Peer effects in academic achievement refer to the influence that students exert on one another’s performance, a dynamic that has garnered increasing attention in education research. Recent studies ...

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In a recent study published in Nature Human Behavior, researchers assessed the associations between cognitive and non-cognitive (NCS) skills and academic achievement from ages 7 to 16. Study: Genetic ...

I study the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracking reduces low-scoring students’ GPAs and has little effect on ...

Objective To summarise the current evidence on the effects of physical activity (PA) interventions on cognitive and academic performance in children, and formulate research priorities and ...

The largest federal emergency school aid in history boosted learning recovery from the pandemic, two new studies find—but the benefits have been uneven and nowhere near enough to get students fully ...