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Can we improve school interviews? Part 2: Intuition vs. statistical prediction

May 10, 2017 | Category: psychology

In Part 1 I reviewed some of the research around the best way to recruit and how this might apply to school recruitment. One of the suggestions I made was that schools should "design an interview form...

#Sutton Trust #Daniel Kahneman #Interviews #Paul Meehl

Why 'grammar schools for all' won't work

Apr 30, 2017 | Category: psychology

A better, but overlong, title for this would be "Why grammar schools don't work for all and why 'grammar schools for all' (probably) won't work".At the birth of the comprehensive school movement, prim...

#Judith RIch Harris #grammar schools #group socialisation theory #Harold Wilson #stereotype threat

A summary of my arguments about education

Apr 13, 2017 | Category: psychology

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. Oliver Goldsmith A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot Debating ideas in edu...

#memory #evolution #intelligence #Flynn effect

Why do we forget stuff? Familiarity vs recall

Apr 08, 2017 | Category: psychology

Now and then, I've taught whet seemed to be a successful lesson. I'd explain challenging content, check for understanding, get some great responses to consolidation activities and, at the end of the l...

Education isn't natural - that's why it's hard

Feb 23, 2017 | Category: psychology

One of the most troubling conundrums in the field of education is that the common sense observation that children learn so many things simply by virtue of being immersed in an appropriate environment ...

#David Geary #evolutionary psychology #John Sweller

Humans can't multitask

Jan 23, 2017 | Category: psychology

One of the highlights of my day at researchED Amsterdam was hearing Paul Kirschner speak about edu-myths. He began his presentation by forbidding the use of laptops or mobile phones, explaining that...

#handwriting #Paul Kirschner #multitasking

Is growth mindset bollocks?

Jan 25, 2017 | Category: psychology

Like everyone else, when I first came across Carol Dweck's theory of growth mindsets I was pretty psyched. There was something so satisfyingly truthy about the way the labels 'fixed' and 'growth' mind...

#Carol Dweck #Growth mindset #Li and Bates #replication

Does 'brain training' increase intelligence?

Nov 08, 2016 | Category: psychology

In my last post I outlined the differences between fluid and crystallised intelligence and argued that fluid intelligence (Gf) - the ability to reason and to solve new problems independently of previo...

#Daniel Willingham #working memory #fluid intelligence #brain training #Robert Sternberg

Making kids cleverer

Nov 05, 2016 | Category: psychology

One of the real problems with improving education systems is that there tends not to be much agreement about what education is actually for. I've written about this issue before and have made clear my...

#Carol Dweck #crystallised intelligence #fluid intelligence #Raymond B Cattell

What Dr Fox teaches us about the importance of subject knowledge

Sep 04, 2016 | Category: psychology

In 1970, psychologists and psychiatrists were invited to a lecture on "Mathematical Game Theory as Applied to Physician Education." The lecture, supposedly given by Dr Myron L. Fox, a graduate of the...

#Deborah Merritt #Dr Fox effect #educational seduction #Rob Coe #Strauss #Ziv and Stein