Hannah Stynes

PhD Researcher @UCL_IOE_PHD // Mammy of 2 👶🏻👦🏼

[Children's School Lives @CSLstudyUCD]

🚨 Today, we launch Report 9 from the #CSLstudy, ‘Experiences of the Transition to Post-Primary Schooling’
🔗 Download the report from our website at: https://t.co/NIBpXQC1Kp
🧵 Read about some of the key findings below –
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[Children's School Lives @CSLstudyUCD]

🚨 Today, we launch Report 8b from the #CSLstudy, ‘Equalities in Children’s School Lives: The Impact of Gender.’

🔗 Download the report from our website at: https://t.co/2gKA94rTFS

🧵 Read about some of the key findings below –

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[Jon Severs @jon_severs]

”effective teachers do two things: they have high expectations and they offer high support”

➡️The struggle to spot (and develop) effective teachers

Excellent, detailed Q&A here with a world expert on teacher effectiveness @MatthewAKraft - a must read!

https://t.co/NxK0Keu3cy

[NCCA @NCCAie]

What effect can poverty have on a child’s educational experience in primary school?
Follow the research @cslstudyUCD to hear what children told us! 🗣️

Cén tionchar is féidir le bochtaineacht a imirt ar eispéiris oideachasúil páistí sa bhunscoil? Lean an taighde @cslstudyUCD chun an méid a dúirt páistí linn a chloisteáil! 🗣️

🔗https://t.co/izMoMGj8Ix

[Hannah Stynes @Han_Stynes]

@SeaneenSloan @CSLstudyUCD @O_Ioannidou @gmsainz @Sean_Gleasure Guys this is kind of giving me FOMO 😂

[Dr. Martin Stynes @MStynes62]

Appealing for support and to spread the word for our great friends from @KilleaghGAA - the Motherway family and young Rory. A lovely young chap. In need of our help and working so hard himself in Rehab ❤️ So brave. Please donate and share. Thank you.

[UCL Institute of Education @IOE_London]

Emeritus Professor Peter Blatchford (@UCL_IOE_PHD) reflects on the need for educational research to look more closely at what happens in classrooms to understand the interconnectedness of the system.

Read in @tes:
https://t.co/mUpQ1F7Nv4

[Hannah Stynes @Han_Stynes]

Give a listen to the fab @MelissaBohnert discussing some of the unique aspects of growing up as Gen Alpha 🌟

[Hannah Stynes @Han_Stynes]

My favourite little corner of UCD to walk around and think! ❄️

[ExperimentArchaeolog @EArchaeol]

Snowy scenes at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture #sneachta

[Prof Michael Pluess @michaelpluess]

So much of the research on child development focuses on how to avoid the development of problems or how to deal with problems. I wrote a new paper making a case to consider positive child development, such as the development of compentence. https://t.co/FYiPCsqeRN

[Dr Seaneen Sloan @SeaneenSloan]

A @SchoolofEdUCD trainee educational psychologist is looking for participants for doctoral research on transgender & gender diverse youth in schools

If you:
✅ are a psychologist practising within Ireland, and
✅ would be interested in being interviewed…
… please see below 🙏

[CLOSER @CLOSER_UK]

🗓️There's still time to sign up to our Emerging Longitudinal Scholars webinar this Wednesday!

@Kate__Mooney & Cátia Margarida Ferreira de Oliveira will share their research on longitudinal trends in children's development: https://t.co/Sj2TVNRNXu
#EpiTwitter #PopTwitter

[Dr Seaneen Sloan @SeaneenSloan]

Come along to this webinar & hear all about Masters programmes @SchoolofEdUCD

MSc Education, Children & Youth
MA Education
MEd Leadership
MEd Inclusive Education
PME

📅 Thursday 25th Jan 5pm

Our colleagues @econrachel and @O_Ioannidou will be there to answer your questions!

[Children's School Lives @CSLstudyUCD]

🎄 Everyone at #CSLstudy would like to wish our followers a merry Christmas and every good wish for 2024.

⛄️ In particular, we would like to thank the children, families, teachers, school leaders, and other school personnel who have supported our research this year.

[Dr Seaneen Sloan @SeaneenSloan]

The @CLOSER_UK and @SchoolofEdUCD THRIVE (Trajectories, Health, Resilience, InclusiVity and Education) Research Group Christmas lunch!

A fabulous group that @Jenny_Symonds and I are privileged to work with ❤️

[Hannah Stynes @Han_Stynes]

CSL Report 6 is published this week 🎉 With enormous thanks to all of our participating schools, including our amazing children and their families and our invaluable fieldworkers. We couldn't do this without you💜

[NCCA @NCCAie]

How does curriculum shape children’s experience of school and learning in primary school in Ireland? Report 6 from the Children’s School Lives longitudinal study launches today and is available here: https://t.co/5NIMPImLsA @CSLstudyUCD#edchatie

[University College Dublin @ucddublin]

👧👩‍🏫 Children’s School Lives: ‘Repetitive and overloaded subjects’ reducing the enjoyment of learning

😖 The increased stress and anxiety children feel as they progress through national school is mirrored in a decreased love of learning, according to new @SchoolofEdUCD research.

The latest report from the 'Children’s School Lives' (CSL) study, a landmark UCD-led project following 4,000 children across 189 schools in Ireland, found that as children progressed through primary school their enjoyment declined due to what they “saw as repetitive and overloaded subjects”.

The research showed children have a strong preference for subjects taught in more creative or child-friendly ways, and that the more a child enjoys a subject, the more they engage with it.

But as workload increased in preparation for secondary school, interest in subjects dropped as children got bored or confused by their curriculum.

This is reflected in there being a strong preference in young children for homework between senior infants and first class but a growing resistance to homework as they got older - particularly among boys.

The report said parents of children in more senior classes noticed an increasing incidence of resistance to homework, with some feeling “more strongly that homework is an unnecessary source of stress for children in school and they should not get too much of it”.

In both older and younger primary school children, homework was difficult to manage in busy families where both parents were working or involved in multiple school pick-ups and extra-curricular activities.

Similarly, some children reported an impact on their enjoyment of learning as they progressed in primary school due to higher levels of stress and anxiety over assessment.

In terms of testing, parents reported children in the early years of primary school do not feel worried about assessment but that this changed as they moved into more senior classes, with some saying it sometimes led to children faking illness.

A third of children interviewed between second class in 2019 and sixth class in 2023 said they typically felt anxious about their performance before and after standardised tests. Another third said they typically felt anxious sometimes.

Most children however expressed a strong preference for informal assessments from their teachers.

Led by Professor Dympna Devine and Associate Professor Jennifer Symonds, and assistant professors Seaneen Sloan and Gabriela Martinez Sainz, from the UCD School of Education, and carried out on behalf of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, the CSL study aims to follow thousands of children through their primary education to learn in detail about their experiences.

[Dr Aoife Munroe @AoifeMunroe]

Hello All 👋🏻

I am asking for your help. I really need a few more participants for my PhD research. My research is focused on better understanding autistic girls' experiences of mainstream post-primary education in the Republic of Ireland. #AutismResearch

[Dr Seaneen Sloan @SeaneenSloan]

🔔 Vouchers to be won!

If you are one of over 2,000 children & parents who participated in CSL btw 2nd class & 6th class - we would love to hear from you!

📩 Look out for an email w/ survey links (one for parents & one for 1st year students) or contact [email protected] for more info

[Children's School Lives @CSLstudyUCD]

🚨 Our CSL National Study Wave 6 survey is now live!

📧 If you are a parent of a child in 1st year who previously took part in CSL, please make sure you check your inbox for links to our parent survey for 2023. 1/

#CSLstudy #edchatie