Education And Psychology

Ansari will challenge the common assumption that symbols for numbers acquire their meaning by being mapped onto the pre-existing, phylogenetically ancient system for the approximate representation of non-symbolic numbers. Read More

Vanderbilt School of Medicine and Peabody College have established a transinstitutional Policies for Action Research Hub to better understand and develop recommendations to address the needs of some of Tennessee’s most vulnerable children, including those in immigrant families and with prenatal exposure to opioids. Read More

Vanderbilt is developing an instructional approach that leverages students’ first language to comprehend English language texts more effectively. Read More

Vanderbilt will conduct a clinical trial of an intervention for young children with language delays in an NIDCD study. Read More

A Vanderbilt study finds that teachers of color are more likely to transfer schools than White teachers, especially when they are racially isolated. Read More

Researchers evaluated Tennessee's online course that students complete during high school to avoid taking remedial math in college. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers will establish a new research hub to better understand the needs of some of some of Tennessee’s most vulnerable children. Read More

Vanderbilt's Shaun M. Dougherty will help lead the Career and Technical Education Research Network, a new IES-funded research project. Read More

How long humans and other warm-blooded animals live—and when they reach sexual maturity—may have more to do with neurons in their cortex than body size or mass, according to new research by Associate Professor of Psychology Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Read More

A one-year $604,000 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will allow researchers to to examine biological and phenotypic markers of Down syndrome. Read More

The Center for Integrative & Cognitive Neuroscience hosted the 6th Workshop on Computational Properties of Prefrontal Cortex. Read More

Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Special Education Laurie Cutting has received a $3 million NIH Merit Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Read More

Principals with higher performance ratings are much more likely to retain higher-performing teachers and move out low performers, according to a new Vanderbilt study. Read More

Patterning and spatial activities like block play are simple yet powerful activities in which preschoolers develop early math skills, according to a growing body of research by Vanderbilt scholars. Read More

More than a dozen Cassiopea were given to the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt by the Tennessee Aquarium. Read More

A new Vanderbilt study challenges the causal role of the Approximate Number System in mathematical ability. Read More

Principals and districts benefit when principal supervisors move beyond the role of administrator to coach and mentor, according to a new Vanderbilt University report. Read More

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy honored two Vanderbilt researchers for STEM mentorship. Read More

After five years of implementation, iZone schools continue to show positive gains on student achievement while the students in the Achievement School District did not gain more or less than comparison schools. Read More

Student achievement gains are higher in schools where principals’ leadership practices are rated more positively by their supervisors, according to a new brief. Read More