Thursday 16 February 2012

Sucks To Be You, Burlington Junior School…

After all, your wacky theories are now out of favour, aren’t they?
Pupils who shout out in class achieve better results than their counterparts who appear to be better behaved and quiet, suggests research.
Whoops! You just get settled in to one barmy theory, and another comes along and overturns it!
The Durham University study looked at 12,000 pupils in England.

"Although it may seem disruptive, blurting out of answers clearly helps these pupils to learn," said report co-author Christine Merrell.
And there’s more study on the way!
Ms Merrell, CEM's director of research and development, said she wanted to carry out further studies to see how pupils could be encouraged to shout out as part of the lesson.
Heh…

4 comments:

Woodsy42 said...

Noo doubt it may help them. However what the disruption and lack of self control around them does to the concentration and learning ability of their classmates is probably a different question.

Dr Evil said...

And here was me thinking Tourette's syndrome was a bit of a handicap.....

Ex Teecha said...

Actually, there is something in this as the ones who join in -- however silly -- at least aren't hiding behind their mobile phones or hoping to catch up on sleep lost while playing endless rounds of Deathwish Whack-a-Miole VII.

Plus, sometimes the loud ones shout out funny things. The trick is not to laugh too easily at their 'wit'...

JuliaM said...

" However what the disruption and lack of self control around them does to the concentration and learning ability of their classmates is probably a different question."

Oh, don't worry, this'll go the way of all the OTHER fads soon enough...

"And here was me thinking Tourette's syndrome was a bit of a handicap....."

Heh!

"Actually, there is something in this as the ones who join in -- however silly -- at least aren't hiding behind their mobile phones..."

Argh! Which should be banned in schools!