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Keeping you (teachers) informed // Director of Education @Steplab_co & author of Evidence Snacks → weekly 5-min email read by 30k+ teachers 🎓
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🚨🚨NEW PAPER ON INCLUSIVE TEACHING. that I've been working (pretty intensely) on for the last few months. Details below:. ↓
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🔥 15 hottest edu-research papers from the last 15 weeks:. (all open source 🔓). ↓.
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16/ Study comparing subtitling vs dubbing in learning. → finds that subtitling greatly boosts language skills, especially listening and speaking. FIN.
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15/ Overview of findings of studies on student mental effort and self-regulation. → explores how motivation, task design, and strategy support shape how effort is judged and used.
link.springer.com
Educational Psychology Review - The effort monitoring and regulation (EMR) model integrates self-regulated learning and cognitive load theory to examine how students monitor, regulate, and optimize...
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14/ Study comparing overt (talking/writing) vs covert (thinking) retrieval. → finds that overt works better for complex info, while covert is faster but less thorough.
link.springer.com
Educational Psychology Review - Prior research suggests that the effectiveness of retrieval practice may be moderated by response format: overt retrieval (e.g., typing a response) outperforms...
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13/ Study tracking over 100k EAL students in Aus schools. → suggests that most need 6+ years of support to learn English alongside curriculum.
www.edresearch.edu.au
This report presents research into how long it takes students in New South Wales government schools learning English as an additional language to develop the level of English required to equitably...
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12/ Study exploring how tech use affects learning. → finds that relying on AI tools weakens memory and deep understanding.
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11/ Study examining how peers influence learning goals. → suggests both cooperation and competition positively boost students’ drive to improve.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Background Research on the predictors of mastery-approach goals has focused primarily on the role of internal psychological and teacher-related factors. However, the role of one's peers, specifical...
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10/ Study using random test centre assignment in high-stakes exams. → finds testing away from home school lowers scores and deepens inequality.
edworkingpapers.com
High-stakes exams are often administered at designated test centers, requiring many students to test in unfamiliar environments. We investigate whether such arrangements impact students' test...
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9/ Report tracking teachers after maternity leave. → finds those returning part-time stay longer, suggesting flexible work helps keep teachers.
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8/ Study testing the “counting days” revision strategy. → suggests it encourages spaced study and improves overall exam performance.
www.nature.com
npj Science of Learning - Counting days is a spacing incentive that unlocks the potential of low GPA students
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7/ Study examining how the internet affects creativity. → suggests it boosts individual output but undermines group originality by encouraging convergence.
link.springer.com
Memory & Cognition - This study investigates the impact of internet access on creativity and identifies potential hidden costs of internet use for groups. Using the alternative uses task, we...
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6/ Review on movement in learning. → finds that gestures, pointing, and physical activity can boost learning (but only when not misaligned or redundant).
link.springer.com
Educational Psychology Review - Human movement plays a foundational role in cognition and learning. This topical collection brings together theoretical and empirical work examining how gestures,...
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5/ Review of studies on drawing to learn. → finds it helps most when tasks are well-designed and tests match the drawing style.
link.springer.com
Educational Psychology Review - The generative learning strategy of learning by drawing has received increased attention in recent years. Although this strategy is regularly used by educators, the...
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4/ Study on air quality & learning. → finds small pollution increases raise absences, bad behaviour, and teacher sick days, hitting poorer kids hardest.
www.nber.org
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3/ Study on using scrap paper to solve math(s) problems. → finds that offloading boosts performance, especially with stronger prior knowledge.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Background High working memory capacity is associated with improved mathematical problem-solving skills. A leading theory about why working memory enhances problem-solving suggests that capable...
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2/ Longitudinal study of ‘teaching to the test’. → finds increased TTT before exams may (in contrast to common views) actually boost intrinsic motivation, importance, and utility.
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1/ Review of RCTs on growth mindset in schools. → finds strongest studies show near-zero impact, so large-scale investment may not be warranted.
bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Encouraging the idea of a growth mindset in which students believe that they can improve their ability, as opposed to a fixed mindset, has been suggested as an effective and relatively cheap approa...
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🔥 16 hottest education related research papers from the last 8 weeks:. (all open source 🔓). ↓.
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RT @MccreaEmma: 🧮 📘 One for all the maths teachers out there! 'Secondary Maths In Action', arguably most important subject in the series 😜,….
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