We often think of self-esteem as either high or low, but the level of your self-esteem might be less important than the stability of your self-esteem.
Fatigue has been associated with a variety of psychoeducational issues, such as slower educational progress and more frequent school absences.
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Capturing the experiences of students who are deaf or hard of hearing is important so schools can address fatigue related to listening and communicating efforts.
Classrooms should not be a free-for-all TikTok fest. But we need to support children to learn how to concentrate and function in a digitally-saturated world.
Children born during the pandemic are at nearly twice the risk for developmental delays.
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The COVID-19 pandemic – and the isolation it brought on – deprived many babies of the stimulating experiences they need to develop. Is the damage permanent? A language specialist weighs in.
Different types of data can influence how parents select schools for their children.
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Student experience or satisfaction surveys are not a reliable guide to teaching performance. Even worse, anonymous survey responses are at times little better than university-facilitated hate speech.
A study showed that, on average, more greenery around primary schools was associated with better NAPLAN scores. Higher exposure to traffic-related pollution was associated with poorer scores.
Napping reboots the preschool brain and clears the deck for learning.
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Students suffer the double burden of malnutrition - hunger and obesity. This results in stress, ill health, poor academic results and increased drop-out rates.
Smartphones make great citizen research tools. We take them everywhere and they have the functions (GPS, accelerometers, camera, audio, video) to sense, share and mobilize data between consenting citizens.
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We blame electronic devices for our increasingly sedentary behaviours. So why not harness them to study our movement patterns and tackle urgent health crises?
Nigeria has the world’s highest number of out-of-school children and over 60 million of its citizens are illiterate. Here’s what the country can do to improve its education sector.
Students are invited to give feedback on teachers performance at Australian universities.
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A study or more than 500,000 surveys shows university students demonstrate bias against women teachers, and particularly women from non-English speaking backgrounds.
Paying students to do homework can actually improve their grades.
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Research shows small financial incentives for doing maths homework can increase maths achievement. But this raises some tricky ethical questions.
The term “at-risk” is frequently used to describe students from challenging circumstances. Some educators are working to change that.
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Using the term ‘at-risk’ to describe students from challenging circumstances often creates more problems than it solves, a professor of counseling psychology argues.
Up to two-thirds of students experience ‘ninth grade shock,’ which can affect everything from grades to mental health.
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While transitioning to the ninth grade can be stressful for many students, teaching students to be more optimistic can better enable them to cope with the challenges, research psychologists argue.
A first-grader eats a candy cane while watching the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009.
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A researcher warns that the sugary treats of the holiday season can set the stage for children’s long-term health and academic success if left unchecked.
Research shows that when parents engage in simple science projects with their kids at home, it boosts their learning in school.
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Learning is an independent activity at university. Students who don’t speak English as a mother tongue struggle to decode the content, let alone make sense of it.
Teachers can help parents support their child’s maths learning at home.
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Some students struggle because of biological constraints on learning. This can be overcome to an encouraging degree, but only with special and adequate resources.