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