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The Key to Success: Deliberate Practice or our Genes?

In Debates and Polemics, Evidence in Education by Alex Quigley31/07/201421 Comments

Wayne Rooney, aged 16, scoring an iconic goal against Arsenal. Genius derived from genes? Or does practice make perfect? Most young boys grow up in Liverpool playing football and little …

Alex Quigley

I am Director of Huntington Research School, York. I am also a Research School Developer for the EEF, supporting research schools in the north of England.

When I am not doing research school work, I can be found teaching English as well writing edubooks and articles for TES and Teach Secondary magazine.

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This is ludicrous and appalling.
Two decades of scientific research has shown that the human adolescent brain and mind are still in development. This is not a theory, it’s a robust and replicated unequivocal finding, from many hundreds of scientific studies. https://t.co/eSfo13Xdpt

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This is spot on - I particularly like the failed retrieval practice example.

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Alex Quigley

I am a Senior Associate at the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), after fifteen years as an English teacher and school leader. The focus of my work is supporting school improvement and making research  evidence accessible and useable for teachers and school leaders.

I write books for Routledge, including the bestseller, ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’. Currently, I am a columnist for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine. I am a ResearchED Trustee & a member of the Chartered College of Teaching Impact Journal board.

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