Does it matter if students do tests on computers or on paper?
Australian students are increasingly taking tests on computers. This includes major tests used to check national progress on literacy and numeracy.
Australian students are increasingly taking tests on computers. This includes major tests used to check national progress on literacy and numeracy.
Education
Aug 25, 2024
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Parents are reporting worse mental health for their children than they did a decade ago, but different groups of children are struggling with mental health in markedly different ways.
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2024
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Online abuse affects one in six school-aged children, according to a recent World Health Organization survey of Europe, Asia and Canada. This statistic is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to online abuse, though, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 7, 2024
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It's not uncommon today to see children glued to their screens. In fact, 80% of parents with children 11 or younger say their kids watch YouTube videos, according to a 2020 Pew Research Center poll. Half of these parents ...
Education
Jul 17, 2024
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Perceived unjust teacher behavior is strongly and positively associated with populist attitudes among children and adolescents.
Education
Jun 4, 2024
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Neanderthal children (who lived between 400,000 and 40,000 years ago) and modern human children living during the Upper Paleolithic era (between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago) may have faced similar levels of childhood stress ...
Archaeology
May 23, 2024
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Important decisions are made about a child's life during private law proceedings—but a strikingly large proportion of children are not seen by the professionals involved, and have no voice, new research shows.
Social Sciences
Feb 21, 2024
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Food waste is a global issue, with the estimated value of wasted food totaling $230 billion CAD in 2023. In Canada, estimates suggest half of the food wasted occurs at the household level, which roughly equals $1,000 CAD ...
Education
Feb 6, 2024
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Intimidation at school is a widespread and worrying phenomenon being examined through psychology and genomics.
Social Sciences
Feb 1, 2024
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In this digital age, children are exposed to overwhelming amounts of information online, some of it unverified and increasingly generated by non-human sources, such as AI-driven language models. As children grow older, the ...
Social Sciences
Dec 22, 2023
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