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Are knowledge organisers flawed?

Sep 20, 2020 | Category: psychology

Like many others, I got quite excited about the idea of organising the knowledge students needed to learn on a single page when I first encountered it on Joe Krby's blog. As Joe said, a knowledge orga...

#memory #schema #knowledge organisers #Oliver Caviglioli

What do teachers need to know about Cognitive Load Theory?

Dec 17, 2019 | Category: psychology

I've come to the conclusion Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory is the single most important thing for teachers to know https://t.co/MkJJLruR8g — Dylan Wiliam (@dylanwiliam) January 26, 2017 What do teac...

#cognitive load theory #Working Memory Model

The nail in Growth Mindset's coffin?

Mar 06, 2018 | Category: psychology

As I'm sure everybody already knows, mind sets are beliefs about the nature of characteristics like intelligence. The theory is that students with growth mindsets believe their ability can be changed...

#Carol Dweck #Growth mindset #Timothy Bates

When do novices become experts?

Feb 17, 2018 | Category: psychology

It's a fairly well established principle of cognitive science that experts and novices think differently. Being aware of these differences can make a big difference to teachers. For instance, if we as...

#experts and novices #John Sweller #cognitive load theory #expertise reversal effect #Slava Kalyuga

Teaching to make children cleverer - Part 2

Jan 07, 2018 | Category: psychology

In my last post I reviewed those aspects on intelligence which are likely to be most malleable by teachers. Briefly, research into individual differences suggests that intelligence is fairly stable an...

#Kirschner #Sweller & Clark #working memory #long-term memory #schema

What does the Theory of Multiple Intelligences tell us about how to teach?

May 26, 2017 | Category: psychology

As I explained here, the scientific consensus is that intelligence is general. That is, if you are good at verbal comprehension, you'll also tend to be good perceptual organisation, and if you're good...

#Multiple Intelligences #Howard Gardner

What teachers need to know about intelligence – Part 2: The effects of education

May 22, 2017 | Category: psychology

In Part 1 of this series I laid out why IQ matters and that, far from being a banal measure of merely of how well some people do in a series of irrelevant tests, IQ actually has real power to predict...

#intelligence #IQ #James Flynn

What teachers need to know about intelligence - Part 1: Why IQ matters

May 21, 2017 | Category: psychology

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.Montaigne Although it’s become a truism to say we know relatively little about how our brains work, we know a lot more now than we used...

#Steven Pinker #intelligence #IQ

The problem with problem solving (or, why I struggle to reset my clock)

May 14, 2017 | Category: psychology

When the clocks went forward in March and we arrived in British Summer Time, I made an abortive attempt to change the time on my car's clock. I knew, from having eventually changed it six months ago,...

#problem-solving #John Sweller #means-end analysis

Can we improve school interviews? Part 3: The interview lesson

May 11, 2017 | Category: psychology

In Part 1 of this series I reviewed some of the evidence on what makes for effective interviews, and in Part 2 I looked specifically at creating a less biased, more structured formal interview. In thi...

#lesson observation #halo effect #Interviews #familiarity effect #sunk cost #survivorship bias