Student engagement
Teachers dread the 'out-of-control', socially maladjusted, delinquent children who wind up in their classes. Identifying them is easy; getting changes is more difficult; but not impossible.
Five years ago 88 percent of students in an average high school thought there would be a devastating war in their lifetimes. How have perceptions changed? A follow-up study.
We can count all the shootings and violence on the TV we let our children watch. But what about the good things they see? More counting reveals interesting facts.
Australia had the idea first, New Zealand has seen it take off: child sized equipment and modified rules develop skills and give great fun.
A skilled detector of the art of putting things off reveals the techniques of 14-year-old Wayne and his partners, and shows how the clever teacher gets them working.
Being told the answer can actually stop you remembering it. When and how the answer is given is very important. This research from the frontiers of science may be the beginning of big changes In teaching techniques.
As part of a larger study of the junior school, video recordings were made of new entrants busily adjusting to school learning. Here are fascinating insights into learning, interaction, and classroom climate.
Creativity in poetry can be measured, and reliably. But encouraging creative poetry is a subtle business easily upset by asking the wrong questions, making inappropriate demands, setting the wrong atmosphere.
How many children do their homework with the TV on? Does it help or hinder? This research from audience surveys in the UK makes us pause before automatically condemning homework with TV. Reprinted from the Journal of Educational Television, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1950.
Television nowadays often blends the ingredients of different genres into one programme, notably documentary (fact) and drama (fiction). Research in Britain confirms that children have difficulty in separating ‘fact’ from ‘opinion’ in such programmes. Faction cannot be dis-invented, so teachers have a job on their hands.
