Research -- StepUp to Learn

Students who think outside the box are more likely to excel in literacy and numeracy assessments.

Unraveling the relationship between motivation and achievement has been a concern among researchers for a long time.

Researchers discover cultural drivers of curiosity and learning.

In a first, researchers link subjective feelings of curiosity to the way the brain physically represents it.

Researchers examining how feedback affects mental effort finds positive feedback boosts confidence, while negative feedback makes tasks seem harder, both boosting motivation. 

After a series of failed attempts at improving students’ problem solving in the classroom, one former teacher came up with the idea of building a ‘thinking classroom’ and a research project designed to find ways to help teachers build it.