Category: Research Roundups
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Education at a Glance 2026: teacher shortages, falling rolls and a puzzle about graduates
The OECD’s annual report finds that 9.1% of teachers are not fully qualified, that falling pupil numbers will not automatically ease shortages, and that a new graduate-unemployment trend should not yet be blamed on AI.
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Seeing the invisible: can augmented reality help students understand solar cells?
Chemistry students who learned about organic solar cells with an augmented-reality app gained more understanding and held fewer misconceptions. But the effect was unusually large and needs replicating.
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Does AI lighten the load? University students, cognitive overload and well-being
A survey of 390 university students in Bangladesh links useful, frequent AI use with less cognitive overload and better mental health, but it cannot show cause and effect, and it did not measure learning.
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On, off, idle: how student engagement flickers during group work
A study combining video and EEG finds that students in group work switch between on-task, off-task and idle states every 10–30 seconds, and that time on task predicts test scores.
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Waiting a second: how tiny loading delays undermine online learning
A new study of more than 80,000 online learners finds that page-loading delays of just one to two seconds are linked to less engagement and lower achievement.