Over at “The Confident Teacher” Alex Quigley (@alexjquigley) posted 10 Creative Ways to Teach Vocabulary on which this post is based. It is well worth a read before reading this post. This focus on this post, is reusable. Alex’s post …
Lots of discussion, again, around MCQs this week. It coincides with a comment from Doug Lemov on a ResearchEd Chile presentation and a pros and cons post from Evidence Based Education. MCQs are rarely too far from the front line …
When teaching spills over and beyond the classroom and one of your pupils shares their story writing, you almost have to give it a wider audience. The following extract was written as part of an end of Year 7 genre …
Here is a follow up to “The science of effective learning with spacing and retrieval practice” taken from an interview with Professor Shana Carpenter on Science Daily. The original and teacher accessible paper examined more than 100 years of research …
Dr Tom Perry’s foreword to Test-enhanced Learning has been sent to the publisher. Waiting for Dr Perry’s foreword, felt like I was a pupil waiting for my work to be marked. Such an ironic spoonful of sugar. This short post …
Bahrick’s proposal of a “two-phase process,” of acquisition (or encoding) and maintenance clearly applied to the rhythms of teaching in schools, possibly in other education environments too. To that I added a third phase, a potentiation phase. So we have …
Dr Harry Bahrick research and insights continues to gnaw away at me. Widely recognised for his accomplishments as a pioneering researcher and as a teacher, his elucidatory commentary is both accessible and compelling. Back in 1979 he was critical of …
Of course it is meant to be a provocative title. It is adapted from the very first paper I read on retrieval practice back in 2011 via the Purdue Newsroom. It was the press release that first got me interested …
