Search results for gcse exams

Education May 23, 2023

What to say and what to avoid if you want to help teenagers combat exam anxiety

GCSE exams are under way and many students will be feeling the pressure to get the grades they need to pursue their education or employment goals.

Social Sciences Aug 25, 2022

Knowledge of foreign languages lasts a lifetime, new research shows

The old adage of use it or lose it doesn't appear to run true when it comes to someone's ability to retain and use a foreign language, a new study has revealed.

Education Jun 15, 2022

Study: High anxiety about GCSE exams has no effect on grades

No clear relationship exists between GCSE test anxiety and exam performance among Year 11 pupils, a UCL study has found.

Education May 24, 2022

Pioneering study reveals teaching techniques that boost exam performance

With the exam season in full swing, teenagers taking their GCSEs are hoping their teachers covered everything so they can achieve top marks. The methods teachers use in the classroom could also hold the key to improving pupils' ...

Education May 13, 2022

How to motivate students during exam time, according to psychologists

As exam season begins, parents, caregivers and teachers will be looking for various ways to motivate students to do well in their studies. But the messaging you use to motivate them should depend on their level of confidence, ...

Education May 10, 2022

There are reasons girls don't study physics, and they don't include not liking math

"From my own knowledge of these things, physics is not something that girls tend to fancy. They don't want to do it … There's a lot of hard math in there that I think that they would rather not do," Katharine Birbalsingh, ...

Education May 4, 2022

New sustainability and climate change strategy for schools in England doesn't match what young people actually want

The U.K. government has introduced a new sustainability and climate change strategy for schools. However, our research shows that it does not go far enough to meet what young people and teachers want.

Education Apr 28, 2022

Teenagers' well-being seems to have little effect on GCSE performance

Pupils who feel particularly joyful do not do any better in their GCSEs than peers who do not feel as happy, according to UCL research led by Professor John Jerrim.

Education Nov 11, 2021

Students who self-identify as multilingual perform better in exams

Young people who consider themselves 'multilingual' tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects at school, regardless of whether they are actually fluent in another language, new research shows.

Education Oct 25, 2021

History teaching has substantially changed to address diversity, say teachers

Some 87 percent of UK secondary schools report making substantial changes to history teaching to address issues of diversity, according research by the universities of Oxford and Reading, based on an Historical Association ...

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