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

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

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 suggests a use of sanctions not only to deal with bad behaviour, but als…