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In a couple of weeks, year 6 pupils will be sitting down to SATs examinations and in secondary schools, A Level and GCSE exams will start in earnest. Teachers everywhere are concentrating …

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Unwrapping the Mystery of Metacognition

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley27/04/20181 Comment

Today the Education Endowment Foundation has released their latest guidance report on ‘Metacognition and Self-regulation‘. I have been delighted to be one of the co-writers of this exciting report, alongside Eleanor Stringer …

Sam Freedman @Samfr·

One of the standard criticisms of education RCTs is that it's not ethical to deprive children in the control group of the intervention. This shows why that isn't true.

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Sam Freedman @Samfr·

This is why RCTs matter. The Achievement for All programme led to pupils doing worse than those in a control group. The biggest negative impact the EEF have found so far. https://schoolsweek.co.uk/achievement-for-all-had-detrimental-effect-finds-eef-trial/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

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Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish·

Too little of the focus on retrieval and studying is linked to motivation - like our cognition works in a vacuum and not mediated by emotion. This is a interesting Swedish study linking retrieval, study and motivation - via @DTWillingham

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