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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...

#learning styles #John Tomsett #Education Endowment Foundation #Greg Ashman #ED Hirsch Jr #Sir Kevan Collins

Triple impact feedback on the EEF marking review

May 24, 2016 | Category: Featured

1.The EEF publish a review of the evidence of marking. 2. I give them some feedback. 3. The EEF respond to my criticisms. 4. Well... we could go on for ever. Feel familiar?James Richardson and Robbie...

#marking #Education Endowment Foundation

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

Should group work be imposed?

Feb 15, 2015 | Category: Featured

I recently posted some thoughts on what group work is and isn't good for. At no point did I say it was good for nothing (although predictably my opinion was caricatured as 'hating' group work) and I h...

#group work #Cristina Milos #Education Endowment Foundation #Robert Slavin

Getting feedback right Part 4: How can we increase pupils’ aspiration?

Apr 02, 2014 | Category: assessment

You may remember that over the past few weeks I've been trying to refine my thinking about how we can improve the way we give feedback. If you haven't already read the previous instalments, you might...

#John Hattie #feedback #Education Endowment Foundation #aspirations

The glamour of grammar: in context or not?

Feb 13, 2014 | Category: English

It's something of an understatement to say that glamour and grammar are not usually closely associated in many people's minds. One of the 100 words David Crystal uses to tell The Story of English is ‘...

#David Crystal #grammar #Alex Quigley #Education Endowment Foundation #Daisy Christodoulou #Debra Myhill

What is meta-cognition and can we teach it?

Jun 01, 2013 | Category: Featured

Meta-cognition is one of those terms that gets bandied about in educational circles as if we all know exactly what it is. And we do: it's...er...thinking about thinking, isn't it?Ever since the Educat...

#Daniel Willingham #cognitive psychology #Education Endowment Foundation #meta-cognition