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Marking answers with a tick or cross won't enhance learning

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imageElaborated feedback is most effective. Professor Layton game provides complex tasks where students receive hints to adjust their strategies.Kip Voytek/flickr, CC BY-SA

Parents and teachers view feedback as important for learning. But some kinds of feedback can be harmful rather than helpful. Considering the increasing popularity of digital learning...

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Why the Reserve Bank isn't the right regulator for our payments system

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imageThe Reserve Bank regulates interchange fees - the credit card fees paid by merchants - but why?Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

Sometimes boring debates are important. Mind numbing detail gets in the way of good policy. So it is with an obscure feature of credit cards known as “interchange fees”.

At the moment these fees are both...

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