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Robert Coe's foreword for #PsychBook

Jul 19, 2016 | Category: psychology

Right. It's done. What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Psychology is off to the printers tomorrow and should be available in the next few weeks.It's always a tense time when what you've written is e...

#Robert Coe #PsychBook

The limits of growth mindset

May 30, 2016 | Category: psychology

What's the difference between success and failure? Effort, of course! As everyone now knows, all you need to ensure you're a success is a shed-load of hard work and the belief that you can do anything...

#Effort #Growth mindset #practice #K Anders Ericsson

Coming soon...What every teacher needs to know about psychology

May 25, 2016 | Category: psychology

Over the past few months, Nick Rose and I have been working together on a new book which sets out what, in our admittedly biased opinion, every teacher ought to know from the field of psychology. Luck...

#Nick Rose #What every teacher needs to know about psychology

The value of testing - on the back of a postage stamp

Mar 07, 2016 | Category: psychology

In an effort to spread the word about some of the most robustly researched psychological effects which can be used to support learning, I've been having a go at creating gimmicky memes.This one is on...

#testing effect #retrieval practice

Learning about learning: What every teacher needs to know

Feb 03, 2016 | Category: psychology

When I trained to be teacher I was told little or nothing about how children learn. Because a lot of what we intuitively suppose about the process of learning is often flatly contradicted by cognitive...

The closed circle: Why being wrong is so useful

Oct 30, 2015 | Category: psychology

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.Fyodor Dostoevsky A closed circle argument is one where there is no possibility of convincing an opponent that they might be wrong. T...

#Richard Feynman #pseudoscience #falsifiability

The Science of Learning

Sep 30, 2015 | Category: psychology

Loyal readers may remember my attempts to wade through the Top 20 Principles of Psychology for Teaching & Learning report from the APA. If you haven't already read it, don't bother. This remarkably co...

#Daniel Willingham #Deans for Impact

What I mean by 'relevance'

Aug 31, 2015 | Category: psychology

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt A few...

#relevance

The uses of disappointment

Sep 13, 2015 | Category: psychology

"Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue." Samuel Johnson I had very low expectati...

#expectations

Do gender differences make a difference?

Jul 18, 2015 | Category: psychology

It's a well-known fact that boys underachieve. Every statistic tells us so. But ever since writing this post I've been suspicious of gender as the root cause for differences in achievement. Yes, girls...

#Elizabeth Spelke #gender #Steven Pinker