Summarising or applying research
Students have limited time to study, and thus the total time it costs is a vital consideration. In fact, we found that practicing efficiently had an even larger effect on memory than spacing usually does! Dr Luke Eglington Last week …
Sleep interests me. From personal effectiveness (Marine time) and early morning risers routines to research into young people well-being. We all know how vital sleep is. Now, I am interested in when to sleep when studying. While we can learn …
Back in December I wrote a post for Sec Ed stating that an understanding of “retrieval practice alone is not enough.” In that post I argued that we also needed to be aware of spaced learning, interleaving, feedback and metacognition. …
For an educator with a professional intesting in test enhanced learning, one of the seminal papers is Dunlosky et al, (2013) Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology. Dr John Dunlosky has, in …
From of expectancy value (- costs) = motivation, though to Dietrich et al., (2019) and onto the introduction of Tanaka and Murayama (2014) care of Bridgid Finn @Bridgidfinn. Tanaka and Murayama (2014) focused on within-person motivation and three predictions. mastery-approach …
After spending two weeks reflecting upon expectancy value theory and observing how individuals approach learning, I found myself applying a “motivational equation” to the context of my lessons, expectancy x value (- costs) = motivation, as swift pre-action calculation. I added …
A week ago I had the privilege of meeting with Bridgid Finn (Senior Research Scientist, ETS – the world’s largest private educational testing and measurement organization). After a series of email exchanges exploring interactions between motivation and cognition we meet …
It has been a busy week, punctuated by three fantastic professional experiences, keeping me motivated. The first, an uplifting conversation with Dr Suzanne Culshaw @SuzanneCulshaw about teacher training and how RememberMore might be able to help teachers in training. The …
