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Should we scrap SATs? Cautiously, yes
Apr 20, 2019 |
Category: assessment
Earlier this week, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn turned up at the NEU annual conference with some crowd pleasing ideas. The most eye-catching of these was that he would, if elected, scrap SATs, saying,...
More good proxies for learning
Nov 28, 2016 |
Category: learning
A few days ago, I wrote about a brief online discussion I had with Dan Willingham on the importance of thinking hard. In the comments, Greg Ashman pointed out that thinking hard cannot be the only way...
Can thinking hard be incidental? A conversation with Daniel Willingham
Nov 27, 2016 |
Category: Featured
For some time now, Rob Coe has been suggesting that a good proxy for students learning in lessons is that they "have to think hard". This seemed eminently sensible and I've written about this formulat...
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...
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