While it’s normal to feel some anxiety and nervousness around the exam period, there are signs a student may need extra support.
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By the time an Australian student is 15, they will have already spent as many as 11,000 hours at school. What happens here matters for their wellbeing.
While curriculum reform is relatively easy to announce, changing what happens in classrooms is much harder.
After graduating, young people enter an often enjoyable, but also challenging, period of new experiences.
Wealthier students tend to score higher on the SAT than other groups of students, raising questions about how accurate of a barometer the test actually is.
The numbers that show Indigenous students ‘behind’ their non-Indigenous peers are accurate. But they only tell part of the story.
School choice heavily influences immigrant students’ experiences in Charleston schools and can leave them in segregated academic environments, new findings show.
Reading anxiety involves excessive worries and apprehensions about reading activities.
Results from the latest international test of 15-year-olds has prompted headlines suggesting serious problems with Australia’s academic results.
In Victoria, for instance, the subject which scales the highest is Latin. But it’s only offered by a handful of schools, most of which cater to privileged families.
Many teens consider the school formal a rite of passage. But some young people might feel an enormous pressure to look a certain way.
A new study looks at how students’ capacity to handle adversity relates to their ability to manage changes at school.
Some might argue kids can just learn ethics from their parents. But new research shows formal ethics education can make a difference.
There are fewer students continuing to study history in Year 12 than ever before. But that doesn’t mean they don’t value it.
As many kids and teachers go to school today in purple clothes, we know too many young people still feel isolated and unsupported.
Some private schools have introduced behaviour contracts for parents. Meanwhile, some states let principals ban abusive parents from public school grounds.
A new study suggests ‘effective teaching’ in Year 9 may play an important role in supporting students to stay on and finish Year 12.
The current debate risks turning into a zero-sum choice between screens and pen and paper.
If this new development – designed to show if a text is AI-generated – sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is.
An oral exam can show how students have meaningfully engaged with a topic. But it shouldn’t be used as a litmus test for AI use.
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Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Education & Policy, Boston College
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Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Mathematics Education, University of Sydney
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Professor of Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, University of New England
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Associate Professor of Education, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor of Education Policy, Australian Catholic University
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Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology, Australian Catholic University
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland