Researchers in the University of Helsinki's Canine Mind research project found that oxytocin made dogs interested in smiling human faces. It also made them see angry faces as less threatening. Correlated with affection and ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 21, 2017
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Schools are rejecting the chance to teach children in "mixed-ability" classes despite evidence that the alternative – pupils being put in ability sets or streams – will have a negative effect on at least some of their ...
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2017
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Is it OK for children to count on their fingers? Generations of pupils have been discouraged by their teachers from using their hands when learning maths. But a new research article, published in Frontiers in Education shows ...
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2017
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Pupils at schools with greater ethnic diversity experience more disorder during language lessons. This is one of the outcomes of research conducted by Gert-Jan Veerman, Lecturer in Education Studies at the Christelijke Hogeschool ...
Social Sciences
Jun 9, 2017
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A study by researchers at the University of Kent is expected to help teachers identify specific reasons for different types of pupil withdrawal in the classroom.
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2017
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Many South Africans were outraged by the recent announcement that for 2016, pupils in Grades 7 to 9 could progress to the next grade with only 20% in Mathematics.
Social Sciences
Dec 13, 2016
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Working with creative mathematical tasks is important for pupils both to reflect on mathematics as well as for their subsequent test results. Being faced with creative tasks during exercise has evident effects on all pupils, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 30, 2016
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Children who receive drug and life skills lessons in school are significantly more prepared to make safe and responsible choices than those who do not receive the classes, according to an evaluation published today.
Social Sciences
Jul 6, 2016
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School pupils' experiences of street harassment are being investigated by researchers – in a bid to shed light on the nature, scale and impact of the issue.
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2016
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Research by the University of Oxford's Education Department finds that more girls than boys think it is important to go to university by the age of 13, and this aspiration gap persists when the pupils reach 15 or 16.
Social Sciences
Jun 6, 2016
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