Which comes first: motivation or achievement? What seems like a chicken-and-egg situation in children’s learning is actually a feedback loop Interview by Juanita Bawagan / August 23, 2021
Maths anxiety is a global concern How can students worldwide be supported to develop a love of maths? by Annie Brookman-Byrne / February 11, 2021
“Children look to teachers as role models for how to treat their peers” Jeanine Grütter discusses the influence teachers have on students’ willingness to include others, which may affect academic achievement Interview by Aisha Schnellmann / January 14, 2021
Do children’s explanations of performance increase the attainment gap? Young children appear to believe differences in achievement are due to stable personal characteristics by Annie Brookman-Byrne / December 10, 2020
The consequences of maths anxiety It’s not only poor performers who are affected by Annie Brookman-Byrne / February 10, 2020
Personalising educational materials Learning should be tailored to individuals, not to ability groups by Annie Brookman-Byrne / January 6, 2020
How to overcome the education hype cycle Promising ideas that produce positive results in experiments often get over-simplified and touted as ‘the answer’ by David Yeager / November 15, 2019
Dispelling a common misconception about children’s learning High-quality exposure to both heritage language and language of instruction can help reduce achievement gaps by Orhan Agirdag / April 10, 2019
Opening the box How will we handle the possibility of genome-based predictions of our children’s school performance? by Sophie von Stumm / March 20, 2019
The fluctuation of IQ What do individual changes in IQ mean for education? by Annie Brookman-Byrne / February 13, 2019
Desirable difficulties in learning “When things feel like they’re getting tough, it may well be that is when the real learning is happening!” by Annie Brookman-Byrne / September 5, 2018
Students exposed to more hardworking peers achieve higher grades Ulf Zölitz discusses his new research on the effects of peer personality on educational achievement Interview by Sabine Gysi / May 22, 2018
