A UK-wide study of children's reading habits has found that Scottish secondary school pupils, like their peers in other countries, are not reading challenging enough books.
Social Sciences
Feb 23, 2018
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When people are awake, their pupils regularly change in size. Those changes are meaningful, reflecting shifting attention or vigilance, for example. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on January 18 have found in ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 18, 2018
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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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