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When retrieval practice goes wrong (and how to get it right)

Jan 28, 2023 | Category: English

Whenever a practice becomes mandated there seems to be a tendency for it to lethally mutate. When I first started writing about retrieval practice (or the testing effect as we used to call it) many pe...

#Robert Bjork #retrieval practice

What's wrong with Ofsted's definition of learning?

Feb 04, 2019 | Category: Featured

As everyone already knows, Ofsted have published a draft of the new Inspection Framework which is currently undergoing a process of consultation. Amazingly, one of the most contentious aspects of the...

#Ofsted #Robert Bjork #long-term memory #Paul Kirschner #John Sweller #William James #Hermann Ebbinghaus

Struggle and success

Dec 09, 2016 | Category: learning

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus The gods of ancient Greece punished Sisyphus, the king of Ephyra, for his hubris...

#Robert Bjork #desirable difficulties #struggle

The feedback continuum: why reducing feedback helps students learn

Oct 15, 2016 | Category: learning

The effects of feedback are more complex than we often realise. While expertise and mastery is unlikely to develop without feedback it's certainly not true to say that giving feedback results in exper...

#John Hattie #feedback #Robert Bjork

Why do edtech folk react badly to scepticism? Part 2: Confirmation bias

Feb 23, 2016 | Category: Featured

In Part 1 I explored the concept of vested interest and how it could lead us to make decisions and react in ways which might, to others, appear irrational. This post address another predictable way we...

#Robert Bjork #Education Endowment Foundation #confirmation bias #digital technology

What is 'transfer' and is it important?

Sep 17, 2015 | Category: learning

Very kindly, Greg Ashman posted his thoughts on #WrongBook on his site yesterday - if you haven't seen his 'review' you can find it here. I really like both the style and the substance of Greg's piece...

#Robert Bjork #transfer #Greg Ashman

Endorsements - what are they worth?

May 05, 2015 | Category: Featured

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise — although the philosophers generally call it “recognition”!William James You might not have noticed (I've been the...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Wilingham #Robert Bjork #What If Everything You Knew About Teaching Was Wrong?

NEW BOOK: Foreword by Robert A Bjork

Mar 25, 2015 | Category: Featured

As some readers will no doubt be aware, I've written a new book. I've been fascinated by Robert Bjork's research into learning and memory ever since first encountering it back in February 2013, so of...

#Robert Bjork

Learning is invisible - my slides from #LEF15

Mar 01, 2015 | Category: Featured

For all those who asked for my slides after my presentation of the London Festival of Education at the IOE, here you go: #LFE15 Learning is invisible from David Didau For all those who weren't ther...

#liminality #Robert Bjork #London Festival of Education

Landmark: a million thank yous

Feb 26, 2015 | Category: blogging

I began blogging in July 2011. In January 2012 I signed up with Google Analytics and have clocked up over 2 million pageviews since.[caption id="attachment_6937" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The s...

#Dylan Wiliam #Robert Bjork #Daisy Christodoulou