Grech, J. (2025) Psychological Responses after Failing an Important Exam: An IPA Study. Psychology, 16, 149-169. doi: 10.4236 ...

COVID-19 revealed weaknesses in our pandemic response plans and sowed distrust in science. Can we get it back?

Last week’s reaction to the dismal scores on the nation’s report card, also known as NAEP, was familiar: panic and calls for reform. Here’s an alternative response: Just say nope to NAEP. For decades, ...

America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made ...

Kate Nesbit explains why the humble sticky note is a terrific low-tech teaching tool. We face another critical juncture in ...

Do you have a loved one writing an examination soon? Exams normally cause jitters and butterflies, and those doing them need motivation and encouragement. Exam wishes for students will let them feel ...

The latest setbacks follow a historic post-pandemic backslide in 2022. In that year’s exam, student achievement fell across both subjects and grade levels, in some cases by unprecedented levels.

For example, eighth grade students who scored below basic in reading were typically unable to make a simple inference about a ...

Students would perform better on the final exam if it was held before Christmas break, because they’re given time at school to revise each week, so they would already be in the right mindset.

This frustration highlights how the exam schedule fails to consider the challenges families face post-holiday. Teachers, too, are caught in the middle. Rizwana, a teacher, shared that while educators ...

Young women who were groped en route to last weekend’s university entrance exams in Japan will be allowed to sit an alternative test this weekend, authorities have announced – an unprecedented ...