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Child given detention for getting less than 90% on a test – psychology shows there are far better ways to motivate students

By Hannah Wilkinson, Lecturer in Educational Psychology, University of Manchester

An 11-year-old at a school in Essex was recently reported to have been given a detention for not achieving 90% on his maths homework (he got 81%). This measure by his school comes in an environment when schools in England seem to be increasingly reaching for severe methods of punishment: more and more children are being suspended or excluded. But the 11-year-old’s detention…

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