Helping students develop better web-based research skills

Andrew Martin

By Andrew Martin
Community contribution / August 17, 2017

It is often claimed that young people are “digital natives”, naturally and effortlessly moving around their virtual world and using technology with great expertise.

While this may be the case in young people’s social networking, gaming and the like, it is not necessarily the ...

This story appeared in the August 2017 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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Andrew Martin, BA (Hons), MEd (Hons), PhD, is Scientia Professor, Professor of Educational Psychology, and Co-Chair of the Educational Psychology Research Group in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia specializing in motivation, engagement, achievement, and quantitative research methods. He is also Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, Honorary Professor in the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and President of the International Association of Applied Psychology’s Division 5 Educational and School Psychology. To see Andrew’s publications visit https://education.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/andrew-martin/

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