News tagged with classmates
K-State Expert Says Fear Of H1N1 Amplifies Normal Anxiety About School, Offers Tips On How To Cope
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 06, 2009 |
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For university students, anxiety about grades is nothing new. But this year, students also may be anxious about the H1N1 flu virus and missing classes.
Classroom behavior: Why it's hard to be good
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 20, 2009 |
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Being seen as either well behaved or naughty at school is never entirely in the hands of the individual child, this study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council shows.
Children with asthma more vulnerable to H1N1 virus
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Nearly a dozen 7th graders with asthma were welcomed along with other classmates back to school today by a special guest who had a message for them about staying healthy - Kathleen Sebelius, 21st Secretary of Health and Human ...
Who am I? Adolescents' replies depend on others (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Ask middle-school students if they are popular or make friends easily, they likely will depend on social comparisons with their peers for an answer. Such reliance on the perceived opinions of others, or reflected ...
Review: Need advice? Aardvark can sniff it out
Jul 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- I like to get advice from friends on all sorts of things, and love to give it even more. In the past few years, instant messaging, e-mail and Twitter have sped up the process, but there's still room ...
Students with depression twice as likely to drop out of college (w/ Podcast)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- College students with depression are twice as likely as their classmates to drop out of school, new research shows.
Children with autism need to be taught in smaller groups, pilot study confirms
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Since the 1970s, there has been much debate surrounding the fact that individuals with autism have difficulty in understanding speech in situations where there is background speech or noise.
Preschoolers' language development is partly tied to their classmates' language skills
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 15, 2009 |
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Young children learn how to speak and understand language from the words parents speak at home and teachers speak in preschool. A new longitudinal study has found that their preschool classmates also play a part.
Children who are depressed, anxious or aggressive in first grade risk being victimized later on
May 15, 2009 |
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Children entering first grade with signs of depression and anxiety or excessive aggression are at risk of being chronically victimized by their classmates by third grade. That's the finding of a new longitudinal study that ...
Study links ADHD medicine with better test scores
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Children on medicine for attention deficit disorder scored higher on academic tests than their unmedicated peers in the first large, long-term study suggesting this kind of benefit from the widely ...
New direction in teaching computer science emphasizes activity, interaction, critique
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Contrary to the words of a popular song, there is such a thing as the real world. Computer science faculty at Washington University in St. Louis are exposing their undergraduate students to learning in ways that prepare ...
Early bad behaviour predicts troubled path, according to study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It seems the ill-advised roads taken early in life are mostly one-way.
Study: Starting kindergarten later gives students only a fleeting edge
Aug 18, 2008 |
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New research challenges a growing trend toward holding kids out of kindergarten until they're older, arguing that academic advantages are short-lived and come at the expense of delaying entry into the workforce and other ...
