Hugely disappointed
Teachers are not very good at writing effective and usable assessment questions. says @ProfCoe #rEdDurham Studies typically find that unstructured judgements of the expected proportion who …
Research
Summarising or applying research
Insights – memorable teaching
Not mine. Learning – What is it, and how might we catalyse it? is the latest offer from Peps Mccrea – author of Memorable Teaching (and Lean …
The single most important thing for teachers to know
Cognitive load theory was recently described by British educationalist Dylan Wiliam as ‘the single most important thing for teachers to know’ (Wiliam 2017). My longest …
Retrieval more important than revision
At the back end of January ‘10 I was reading the research findings by Jeffrey D. Karpicke, Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue. In …
links for 2011-01-28
Purdue Newsroom – Research finds practicing retrieval is best tool for learning (tags: retrieval learning research) One to follow up on. Testing promotes learning. If …
First CLT Meeting
Despite requesting that I be informed when the Headteacher arrived for the CLT meeting, I was late in fact late. Second, despite months of conscientious hardwork, Lenovo has let us down …