Research in Education and Learning Lab at Rhodes College

We are constantly looking for kids to come in and participate in our studies, go to our website to join our database!

http://reallabrhodes.weebly.com/

Welcome to the REAL lab

This is a photo from over the summer of two of our participants who had loads of fun during the study and wanted to show off their prizes and certificates! Our studies are really entertaining and make learning about children's mindset, motivation, curiosity, and spatial reasoning fun for both the kids and the researchers! Thanks for the photo!!

Know any children between 5.5 and 8.5 years old? We are still recruiting participants for our spatial play study! Thanks to everyone who has already come in! Pass along our website to sign up: reallabrhodes.weebly.com

Here is a great TED Talk by Carol Dweck discussing the importance of believing in one's ability to improve! Very interesting talk and a good mindset to be in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X0mgOOSpLU

Carol Dweck: The power of believing that you can improve Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain's capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways...

Take a look at this article on research by The REAL Lab's very own Jamie Jirout and Temple University's Nora Newcombe!

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/playing-with-puzzles-and-blocks-may-build-childrens-spatial-skills.html

Playing With Puzzles and Blocks Could Build Children’s Spatial Skills - Association for... Play may seem like fun and games, but new research shows that specific kinds of play are actually associated with development of particular cognitive skills. Data from a nationally representative study show that children who play frequently with puzzles, blocks, and board games tend to have better s…