Is this article about improving student engagement suitable for and worthy of publication?

Background: I am not affiliated with a tertiary institution and have never published an article in a peer reviewed journal previously so do not have any background by which to judge my current...

06 July 2019 6,330 8 View

What psychological mechanism explains the transition from amotivation to disruptive behaviours in a classroom?

I understand that controlling behaviours thwart individual needs and suppress motivation leading to amotivation, but what is the mechanism that causes students to become disruptive, to actively...

09 October 2017 7,466 17 View

Can we design a perfect education system?

Is there a perfect education system (I mean compulsory education here, up to about age 15) that does everything we want it to. First we have to decide what we want. I want: 1. At the end of...

08 September 2017 8,812 18 View

Has anyone got any ideas or information about improving outcomes for low SES students in secondary schools (mainly 13 - 15 year olds)?

In particular, I am interested in the variable of motivation on student outcomes. Over the last 15 years I have noticed that motivation more than anything, is the main variable in school success,...

31 December 2015 1,748 4 View

What is learning and also, what is it that we learn?

In my last question, I asked how much a year's worth of learning was. What I found was that there is a deeper question - what is learning? I would like to suggest that learning is everything that...

08 September 2015 2,433 13 View

How much is one year's worth of learning?

One of John Hattie's suggestions is to decide how much a year's learning is for each student and then you can judge that student's success against that amount. While this seems like a good idea in...

07 August 2015 8,893 67 View

Do you have or would you write a poem about education?

10 November 2014 7,460 3 View

I would like to make 'first do no harm' a primary characteristic of quality teaching.

I think the process of schooling does varying amounts of harm to many students. It also of course does a lot of good. Too many students are led to believe they are incapable of learning, and even...

08 September 2014 4,982 1 View

What advice would you give to a young teacher NOT to do because it could potentially harm their students?

There is a campaign, Choosing Wisely, to help doctors to cause less harm by making them aware of their habitual behaviours that have no basis in evidence. It advises doctors on things they...

08 September 2014 4,930 3 View

Is there a fundamental conflict between what happens in assessment & reporting at primary & secondary school and what we say we value from schooling?

Most compulsory education systems, i.e. primary & secondary schools, purport to value similar outcomes. In Queensland, Australia they are called Attributes of a life long learner, which speaks...

06 July 2014 2,502 4 View

How can the use of Jolly Phonics improves the quality of reading, speaking and writing in rural disadvantaged communities in Papua New Guinea?

Jolly Phonics reading program is an effective way to teach early reading to young learners. How can lectures at the university prepare early childhood student teachers to teach Jolly Phonics to...

03 March 2021 3,731 3 View

What kind of intervention will be relevant to increase motivation among young sport trainees?

Any suggestion on what book to read is also welcome.

03 March 2021 1,646 4 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

How could I take into consideration the weights of observation in a system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) in rstudio?

I build a model of 4 regression equations (probit and OLS) in R studio. I need to take the weights of observations into consideration. While it is simple to do so for every regression equation,...

27 February 2021 1,233 1 View

Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View

Do you kow of any database containing data on retention time, log P and polarizability for a large number of molecules?

Hi, I am a chemistry undergraduate doing my dissertation project on HPLC. In my project, I need to predict the HPLC retention time of 20 aromatic molecules, the calibration set. To do this I will...

24 February 2021 2,602 1 View