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What do teachers believe?
Mar 16, 2017 |
Category: research
It's well-established that various 'myths' about how students' learn are remarkably persistent in the face of contradictory evidence. In 2014, Paul Howard-Jones' article, Neuroscience and education: m...
Evidence and disadvantage: How useful is the EEF Toolkit?
Feb 26, 2017 |
Category: research
Although everyone's education is important, the education of disadvantaged students is, arguably, of much greater importance than that of students from more advantaged backgrounds. The more privileged...
In praise of signposts
Oct 31, 2015 |
Category: research
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.C. S. Lewis
If you're not sure which way to go, a sign pos...
It's the bell curve, stupid!
Jun 10, 2015 |
Category: research
Like an ultimate fact without any cause, the individual outcome of a measurement is, however, in general not comprehended by laws. This must necessarily be the case.
Wolfgang Pauli
A month or so bac...
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