Cognitive Science

Test anxiety affects OGT performance, professor says (Dayton Daily News)

14 Mar 2010

Students preparing to take Ohio’s graduation test this month will do better if they practice in an environment that’s close to the one in which they first learned the information, a Wright State University professor said.Jeffery Allen, a professor in the School of Professional Psychology, said the pressure of testing is not unlike the challenge of concentration that athletes face when they shift ...

Why our kids won't go to kindergarten (Salon.com)

14 Mar 2010

Like many home-schooling families, we saw an educational system plagued by tests, drills, busywork and flawed ideas

Scientists at RML find similarities in diseases (Ravalli Republic)

14 Mar 2010

In a find that has implications for future development of possible treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, a team at Rocky Mountain Laboratories found new forms of prion disease in genetically modified mice.