Every day in class, students are encouraged to ‘visualise’, ‘imagine’ or ‘picture’ concepts in their minds. Some find this impossible.
- Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Macquarie University
The study looked at students’ levels of confidence and anxiety, while monitoring their brain waves and sweat glands while they did a test.
Note-taking on a laptop may be faster but handwriting engages the brain in a more active way than typing.
In our new research we looked at what impact breakfast has on students’ motivation to learn and their academic achievement.
Our study – based on a survey of more than 70,000 NSW high school students – looked at what impacts upon their ‘academic buoyancy’.
We conducted a study to see if students who set goals to try to improve on their past efforts were more engaged in school. We found the strategy was particularly helpful to disadvantaged students.
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