Summarising or applying research
Why should we be interested in a new research paper from the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning? Here are five reasons. Spaced Retrieval Practice and Edtech Kang et al., (2023) are quick to summarise a wealth of research demonstrating …
Research papers investigating “retrieval practice” continue to be published rather regularly. Fortuntely, at a pace that I can almost keep up to date with. This paper by Zheng et al., (2023) caught my attention as you rarely read papers which …
Attention is the bottleneck of learning. Nothing sticks (information) without first being attended to. ✅ What is attended to – depends on what is perceived. ✅ What is perceived, is heavily influenced by prior knowledge. ✅ I have an open …
When it comes to cognition, to thinking, to memory, theory is unavoidable; therefore, a model is almost always inevitable. These memory models emphasise the importance of the environment, of attention, and help us to understand the mechanics or processes of …
We pick up the story twenty-four years into my teaching career. Seven months into exploring how best to support the pupils in my classes diagnosed as, or recognised as, learning with dyslexia and / or with poor working memory. After …
Kornell and Bjork (2008) famously presented learners with impressionist landscape artwork in blocked or interleaved formats and then tested their ability to identify the artist who had painted novel example paintings. There were two key findings: first, interleaving was superior …
Teaching Holes to Year 7 pupils we quiz every lesson. We pre-test chapter target vocabulary via matched diagnostic and target cues (word-definitions). We then post-test (spacing within the lesson). As we progress through the text, we continue with matched quizzes …
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not information. They are distinctly different and should be taught distinctly differently. Even knowing this, we won’t travel far at all without pupils’ attention and the borders of the hinterland will remain at a …
