DREAMS Parent Webinar: Supporting Adolescents Through Stress, Motivation, and Change
On 5 November 2025, DREAMS hosted a parent webinar that brought together researchers and parents to talk openly about some of the most common challenges adolescents face today—from test anxiety and academic stress to motivation, screen time, and parent–child communication.
Journal Article: How parents and teachers shape students’ motivation through autonomy support
Why do some students feel motivated and engaged in school, while others feel pressured or disconnected—especially as academic demands increase during adolescence?
In Associations between parents’ and teachers’ autonomy support and the bifactor model of academic motivation, Dr Wong Zi Yang and colleagues examine how the ways parents and teachers interact with students influence their motivation…
Journal Article: When Parents Believe, Students Thrive
How much do parents’ expectations really matter for their children’s development? And do teachers play a similar role?
In Perceived parental expectations and their role in academic and psychosocial functioning, Associate Professor Gregory Arief D. Liem (DREAMS Project 2 Principal Investigator) and colleagues examine how students’ perceptions of their parents’ and teachers’ expectations shape not only academic motivation, but also psychosocial well-being…
Principals & School Leaders Sharing 2025
On 26 August 2025, we welcomed over 100 attendees from our DREAMS partner schools, along with MOE representatives and the DREAMS research team, for an engaging afternoon of sharing and discussion on the project’s latest findings.
The session began with Prof Kenneth Poon, Lead Principal Investigator (PI) of DREAMS, who shared broad insights from our study
Straits Times: Teacher-parent partnership important in motivating secondary school students
SINGAPORE – When parents and teachers communicate and work together, students feel more supported and motivated in their studies.
This is according to the findings of two studies by the National Institute of Education (NIE) released in May about how parents and teachers impact students’ academic motivation.
Dr Wong Zi Yang, an NIE research fellow, led one study to understand how support from parents and teachers, which allowed students to make their own choices and be vocal about their thoughts, impacted how driven they were in their studies.
DREAMS @ The Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference (RPIC)
Our research team will be presenting at the Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference (RPIC) on 29 and 30 May. If you are attending the conference, we hope you can join us as we share more about our Year 1 findings.