Opinion | Focus on ‘Right Now’ to Stay on Track with Long-term Health Goals
“Starting healthy behaviors is one important piece of the puzzle; another is sticking with these behaviors over time,” Woolley and Stillman write.
“Starting healthy behaviors is one important piece of the puzzle; another is sticking with these behaviors over time,” Woolley and Stillman write.
Parents who want their kids to be more creative may be tempted to enroll them in arts classes or splurge on STEM-themed toys. Those things certainly can help, but as a professor of educational psychology who has written extensively about creativity, I can draw on more than 70 years of creativity research to make additional suggestions that are more likely to be effective—and won’t break your budget.
To shine light on why students cheat, we conducted an analysis of 79 research studies and published our findings in the journal Educational Psychology Review. We determined that a variety of motivational factors, ranging from a desire for good grades to a student’s academic confidence, come into play when explaining why students cheat.
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