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Testing times ahead for four-year-olds as new starters face ‘harmful’ assessments within six weeks of starting school.
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Study shows how to help students achieve their full potential.
The going gets tougher.
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Research has found that students suffer lower levels of well-being when they don’t regularly use their greatest strengths of character.
Reports suggests many Australian children are forgoing Year 12 exams because they are too stressful.
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In our efforts to support young people, we might be teaching them to be afraid rather than encouraging them to see exams as a positive challenge.
South African universities aren’t doing justice even to top performing high school graduates.
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South African universities are failing to graduate the strongest students the schooling system has to offer.
In Kenya, contraceptive use among teens has been consistently low.
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Teenage girls in Kenya who fall pregnant either drop out of school or risk unsafe abortions.
Yoga, meditation and breathing exercises can help students manage exam anxiety.
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The exam period can be a stressful time for students. Here are a few strategies to help students cope.
If you’re really stressed you might not retain the information you’re cramming anyway, so an early night might be better for you.
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If all you want to do is retain the information until tomorrow, cramming might help. But you will have forgotten it in a week.
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Imagining the ideal school.
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Half of clever students from poorer backgrounds fail to secure top GCSE grades.
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Why new style GCSEs are past their sell by date even before they’ve got going.
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Beat exam stress with these top tips.
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Children in the north of England are more likely to finish school with poorer grades and are less likely to go on to further education.
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An expert gives her top tips for coping with exam stress and nerves.
We need to look for more engaging and relevant assessments that use the tools available in an online environment for re-envisioning NAPLAN.
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Assessments need to be relevant to the real world and test more complex skills to better predict competency, standards of literacy and teaching.
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Schools minister Nick Gibb seems to think young people should face more frequent testing, to prepare for GCSEs. His comments fly in the face of 20 years’ research.
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Secondary students are losing the opportunity to enjoy learning for its own sake.
It’s exam time. Research suggests that while some students will be pleasantly surprised by how they did on exams, a larger group will falsely believe they did much better on their exams than they did.
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Research shows that many students are excessively optimistic about course grades. Those with a stronger sense of personal control are also less likely to receive the grades they expect.
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It was widely reported boys beat girls in A-level results, but my analysis shows this isn’t actually the case.
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This year’s changes to GCSE grades means results cannot be compared with those of previous years.