What makes “great teaching”? It’s a complicated question, made more difficult by trying to measure how teachers make decisions in the classroom and what impact those decisions have on what pupils learn…
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Teachers give tests to find out what their students know. But tests do a lot more than that and can have a powerful effect on what a student remembers. In a typical research study looking at the links…
The more curious we are about a topic, the easier it is to remember not only information about that topic, but also other unrelated information shown at the same time. A study published today in Neuron…
The idea that during sleep our minds shut down from the outside world is ancient and one that is still deeply anchored in our view of sleep today, despite some everyday life experiences and recent scientific…
A series of binary discussions has been plaguing early reading instruction for quite some time now: phonics versus whole language, reading for pleasure versus reading for learning, digital versus paper…
Long-term increases in living conditions and education opportunities for women will increase population-wide cognitive ability…
Adults and youngsters are willing to queue overnight to get their hands on the latest product release from Apple and children appear to be drawn to iPads because of the immediate feedback they get when…
Learning by repetition may enhance memory of factual information, but it has been found to hinder the ability to recall smaller…
Parents and teachers have long been given guidance on which books can help children learn but no such help is on offer when it comes to apps. The bad news is, definite recommendations may be a long time…
Be it personalised gifts, personalised cosmetics services or personalised shopping recommendations, we have become the centre of the products we use like never before. And the trend is now more and more…
Even in a world of digital devices, braille continues to be a vital part of life for blind people. For nearly 200 years, this versatile writing system has allowed them to learn, work and live in a more…
Scientists have used a new molecular compound to restore appropriate behaviour in mice affected with Alzheimer’s disease…
Homework is the perfect platform for parents to help children unravel the mystery to learning. Parents are in a unique position to hang the academic concepts that children learn at school onto their real-life…
Are adults superior problem solvers to children? Most people would say yes. From buttoning a jacket to operating a projector to multiplying complex numbers, our abilities exceed those of children. And…
We are often told that behaviour is not really a problem in the vast majority of English schools. In 2012, the government reported that classroom behaviour was “at least satisfactory” in 99.7% of schools…
Media products that claim to teach babies to read don’t work, new research by New York University shows. The study led by…
Learning from mistakes, errors, and failure seems intuitive and compelling. Everyone can relate to it. But if failure is a powerful learning mechanism, why do we wait for it to happen? Why can’t we design…
Michael Gove is ploughing ahead with plans to gather an elite team of computer science experts to help bring coding into schools. He has rightly acknowledged that teaching programming in schools is vital…
Plants may be able to “learn” from the environment and adjust their behaviour, much like animals, suggests new research from…
The triennial jamboree that is the publication of the OECD PISA tests kicked off with the usual round of blaming and name calling among politicians. Both sides of the political debate naturally found ammunition…
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Professor, University of Stavanger
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Deputy Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Education, Durham University
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Professor Emeritus, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor and Co-Director, Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer, University of Adelaide
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Associate Director Student Experience, Monash University
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Professor of Early Childhood Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW Sydney
