One of the responsibilities of this blog is to troll for interesting or useful research articles about student motivation. This morning, I found one while trolling on the American Educational Research ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. /PRNewswire/ — Birmingham City Schools (BCS) is spearheading an innovative research initiative to explore the critical link between student motivation and math performance. In ...

In this study, the authors investigate the relationships among gender, math skills, motivation, and study success in economics and econometrics. They find that female students have stronger intrinsic ...

Girls would score better in maths and science tests if exams were made longer. That's according to researchers who say this could help to close the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and ...

Children improve at math when instruction engages their own bodies, concludes a new study. The results also document that children require individualized learning strategies. Children improve at math ...

Playing board games such as Chutes and Ladders can help young children get better at math, according to a new study. The format of number-based games helps improve counting, addition and the ability ...

Schools that “weed out the weak” by streaming students into low-level maths classes are exacerbating Australia’s skills ...

This post was updated March 10 at 11:10 a.m. UCLA researchers published a study discussing the success of the Life Sciences 30 series, a set of classes at UCLA designed to revitalize the way life ...

Inequalities in income affect how well children do in maths -- but not reading, the most comprehensive study of its kind has found. Inequalities in income affect how well children do in maths -- but ...