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    Unwrapping the Mystery of Metacognition

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    Why Closing the Word Gap Matters

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Confidence Tests and Exam Wrappers

In Confident Students, Metacognition & Modelling, Teaching & Learning, The Confident Teacher, Uncategorized by Alex Quigley04/06/20164 Comments

We all get our students to do tests. We do long answers, short answers, multiple choice, long essays, or performances in Music, Drama, PE and Art. In short, there is …

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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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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 as writing edubooks and articles for 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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