Retrieval practice, or reconstructing knowledge by bringing it to mind from your memory, has been shown by numerous researchers to improve student learning (see...
On a societal level we often see sleep as an afterthought, taking time away from our other pursuits. To an adult, this may be staying late in the office. For ...
It’s Monday morning, a full day of classes, and you’ve just remembered that the marking you spent Sunday evening doing is locked in your car. You’ve already rec...
Numeracy skills measured at age five, prior to the start of primary school, are strong predictors of later academic achievement in both reading and maths (Dunca...
It is often difficult to find research on a group of children that exactly fits the profile or diagnosis of a child that you are working with; there are many ...
Assessment is an important part of any education system. Without assessment, we cannot be sure that students are learning anything, because, as many countries h...
What are tests and questioning good for?
Jonathan Firth
The 'testing effect', widely referred to now as 'retrieval practice', is a well-known psychological ph...
Nothing polarises a staffroom discussion more than technology. The moment interactive whiteboards, virtual learning environments or mobile devices are brought...
Imagine what a difference it would make if children knew what they were good at and what they had to do to improve.' With these stirring words, our trainer exto...
For four years I have taught in a wide variety of schools and I have always been confused about how we use the word 'validity'. I knew the word had something to...
Feedback seems extremely powerful. It is 'among the most common features of successful teaching and learning' with an average effect size of 0.79, 'twice th...
The issue that teachers face
Questions are an integral part of classroom life and essential to every teacher’s pedagogical repertoire. They are also one of the...
One of the proposals in the Department for Education’s (DfE) recent consultation on primary assessment is to introduce a school-entry assessment to act as a bas...
The EEF looks at how better evidence could help to reduce teacher workload.
The Education Endowment Foundation is an independent charity dedicated to breaking ...
Continuing professional development (CPD) is an important way of spreading evidence-informed practice (EIP) in schools. But despite widespread calls for more fo...
In exploring what constitutes effective teaching and learning in classrooms and schools, this article centres around the important role of evaluation in evidenc...
An international spotlight is now shining on evidence-informed practice. In a fast-changing world, where diverse groups of pupils need to be prepared for their ...
This paper explores how a Federation of three small infant schools attempted to become self-improving through becoming evidence informed, and in collaboration w...
The late, great Ted Wragg once calculated that a teacher typically makes upwards of a thousand 'on-the-spot, evaluative decisions' on any given day (MacBeath, 2...
Jude Hunton considers research on learning for examinations and the kinds of effective strategies that can be gleaned from research on testing and memory.
Te...
