We live in exciting times for educational research. Research on learning and cognition is developing rapidly. The findings from this research are increasingly m...
In 2018, we introduced Impact readers to our initial work designing and implementing a knowledge-rich curriculum at Cottenham Primary School (CPS) (Dennis and K...
The reformed music A-level examination requires students to think far more synoptically than the previous A-level curriculum. Students now spend two years learn...
Retrieval practice is strongly supported by over 100 years of research and is one of only two learning techniques rated by Dunlosky et al. (2013) as having ‘hig...
Cognitive load theory (CLT) (Sweller, 1998) is a well-established framework that has attracted renewed attention due to its evidential role in the new Ofsted ‘E...
Cognitive load theory has led to the development of many instructional techniques for enhancing learning that are designed to prevent learners from overloading ...
A wide variation in children’s mathematics skills is observable from the earliest stages of mathematics instruction (Aubrey et al., 2006). Not only do children ...
Retrieval practice has become ubiquitous in schools because it is easy to implement, and the outcomes are easy to observe and measure. As a teacher educator I a...
The best way to teach values is to provide a culture embodying the values to be learned, in which students become habituated into ways of life that develop char...
The study of multimodality, as explained by Bezemer (2012), ‘focuses on analysing and describing the full repertoire of meaning-making resources that people use...
Students want to learn, but sometimes they don’t know how to; if it gets too hard or too intense too quickly then they give up, fade out or disengage – the same...
One of the most frequent comments that students make after I teach them about memory (and about why some strategies are much more powerful than others) is ‘Why ...
A student misconception, for a teacher, is similar to what a fever is for a medical practitioner: it is an unequivocal indicator that something is amiss.
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Developments in our understanding of how three- to seven-year-olds learn mathematics have practical relevance for the mathematics we plan for in nursery, Recept...
If used effectively, peer assessment – a formative assessment strategy that encourages students to comment on the work of their peers – can improve students’ un...
It has long been recognised that feedback has a very valuable role to play in overall pupil progress and achievement (Hattie and Clark, 2018; Hattie, 1999). How...
The cognitive revolution and the increased focus on evidence-based practice that has swept through the teaching profession in recent years has undoubtedly broug...
Autism has traditionally been viewed as a condition predominantly affecting boys, and therefore autistic girls are not being sufficiently identified. Gould and ...
Hembree’s (1988) large and heavily cited meta-analysis of 562 studies about test anxiety found that test anxiety affects girls more than boys and can start at t...
Conflict of interest statement: This study was carried out by Sumdog, a company providing free and paid versions of their software to schools.
The study desi...
