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 …
Planning is essential however plans are pretty useless. Teaching Holes by Louis Sachar for the first time, the scheme of learning was written with plenty of wriggle room. However in the final two weeks of teaching barely resonabled the plan. …
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 …
Why should teachers be interested in expectancy and value ratings? Expectancy and value ratings have been shown to predict learner effort and performance on learning tasks and tests. Research has shown that there is an indirect effect of perceived importance …
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 …
