Research -- StepUp to Learn

Despite increasing digitalization of schools, forming letters by hand remains crucial for beginning writers.

Exploring the impact of handwriting fluency in Kindergarten students and early reading skills.

Why students who are most likely to benefit from self-testing strategies are least likely to use them.

Giving too much help—especially in tough subjects like math—could be doing more harm than good.

Researchers compare learning from videos vs illustrated texts and found that one boosts retention and understanding.

Researchers question how teaching computational thinking skills can help elementary students’ executive function skills.

Princeton neuroscientists find surprising clues from chatty monkeys who share the power of babble.

Researchers discovered two brain regions that work as a “neural compass," keeping people oriented in virtual city navigation

Researchers assumed more relevant prior knowledge would lead to better learning. Here's what really happened. 

Two areas of the brain may work in combination to tell the brain when it’s “feeling” tired and either quits or continues exerting mental effort.

Your brain has a hidden beat — here's how smarter minds sync to it.

Researchers challenge a decades-old assumption in neuroscience by showing that the brain uses distinct transmission sites — not a shared site — to achieve different types of plasticity.