The road to becoming a champion speller is made easier with support from family and friends, but ultimately it depends on an individual student’s commitment to learning, a scholar writes.
The best place to study is in a space with no distractions and plenty of light.
Hans Neleman/Stone via Getty Images
A researcher who studies ways to help students become better readers and writers describes how to create a homework habit using a loop: cue, routine, reward.
Some schools are starting to open up after the coronavirus lockdown. But what if you’re worried about sending you kids back too soon. Unschooling might be one solution, so how does it work?
Basically, don’t do this.
Flamingo Images/Shutterstock
It can be hard to get into a study groove, but removing distractions, getting enough sleep, self-testing, spacing out your study and creating memory aids can help students succeed.
University students sometimes retake courses they had previously failed. How well do they perform on their second attempt?
The challenges of making new friends, managing schedules and the hormones of puberty can be overwhelming for new high school students.
(Unsplash/Benjamin Voros)
How we calculate university drop-out rates must be amended to reflect the changing cohort of university students, who often dip in and out of study and take longer to complete their degree.
Year 12 students in NSW will study fewer texts in their English course.
Dan Peled/AAP
Students, the impending horror of exams is nearly upon you. But music can help you out. To put it simply, turn to tunes to terminate the terror of term-time. As with so many psychological phenomena that…
Deputy Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland