The COVID-19 pandemic closed schools and forced students into online education, causing widespread worry among parents and educators that an increase in cyberbullying would follow. But that increase never materialized, reports a new study. In fact, bullying and cyberbullying rates actually dropped during the pandemic.  

Research shows that a key indicator of students' success in a virtual learning environment is how adaptable they are, write education psychology professors Andrew Martin and Rebecca Collie, and research assistant Robin Nagy, all of the University of New South Wales.

Three new reports on student achievement during the pandemic all point to larger declines in math than in reading and widening gaps between the haves and have-nots. But describing exactly how students are doing academically is proving to be a challenge when school closures and pandemic experiences varied so wildly from state to state and…

Overall, we find that measured verbal, non-verbal, and overall cognitive scores are significantly lower since the beginning of the pandemic. Looking further, we find that children born before the pandemic and followed through the initial stages do not show a reduction in skills or performance, but rather that young infants born since the beginning of…

Children born during the coronavirus pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor and overall cognitive performance compared with children born before, a US study suggests.

120 miljoner satsas nu på forskning för att undersöka hur fysisk aktivitet kan påverka hjärnhälsan. Forskningen ska bedrivas vid Gymnastik och Idrottshögskolan, GIH och ska pågå under åtta år.

We developed and tested a program that trains Australian teachers and schools to enhance the physical activity of their students long-term. And it costs just a fraction of some government policies that have shown limited results.

Margareta Öhmans bok handlar om känsloarbete som fordrar både pedagogisk medvetenhet, kunskaper om barns emotionella, sociala och psykiska utveckling.

Students who drop mathematics at the age of 16 have lower amounts of a brain chemical that is critical for brain and cognitive development, compared with those who continue maths, a study has found.

Sleep can go a long way in improving mental and physical health, but teens aren’t getting enough of it – and research suggests the pandemic made things worse.

Distansundervisning och minskade sociala kontakter tycks inte ha påverkat studenters psykiska hälsa under coronapandemin. Inte heller studenter som tidigare upplevt sömnproblem, ensamhet och psykisk ohälsa mådde sämre.