5 graphs that everyone should know about, based on tonight's Spotlight webinar with @PearceMrs.

A quick thread that gives a whistle stop tour on recent research about when to retrieve, how students under-value spacing and interleaving, as well as how to get students to cheat less...🧵 1. When you retrieve matters.

Retrieval induced forgetting is real. If retrieve soon after encoding (i.e. after 2 minutes), there is a cost as you will forget other things #tradeoff

Thread on a very cool new study.

What happens if you put eye tracking software on students and teach them using different PowerPoint slides?

Implications and links to student attention, cognitive load and PowerPoint design 🧵 1. What difference does the amount of words at once have?

Compare slide 1 vs slide 2 and 3

By doing less words, more of them get read.

Having lots of info at once means most doesn’t get read, as students scan down not across, and appear to lose interest in the middle

A thread on cold-calling, and why research suggests it might be one of the most inclusive means of participation, as well as one of the best for learning 🧵 What is cold-calling? It sits at the other end of the spectrum from self-selection, which is where students select themselves to answer a question, typically by putting up their hand. The agreed understanding is that if students don’t put up their hands, they won’t be called on

📚 EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT📚

@Inner_Drive 🤝 @RoutledgeEd

Very excited and proud to announce we at InnerDrive are partnering with Routledge to edit a book series called ‘The Teacher CPD Academy’ that we really hope will help make a positive dent in the education landscape. The Teacher CPD Academy series is built on:

📚 Research from cognitive science + teaching & learning

🧠 On topics that matter

📝 Authors from a range of backgrounds: teachers, researchers, senior leaders, psychologists & trainers

📝 Several 1st time authors & established ones

Cognitive Load Theory and Classroom Displays. A 🧵 on some interesting studies… First off a quick note on distractions. They are potentially everywhere.

According to recent research, students get distracted “more than 2,000 times per year and that these disruptions result in the loss of between 10-20 days of instructional time”.

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Who wants a twitter thread on about feedback? Some really interesting studies out there that covers what/when/how. So here is a thread 🧵 on 10 of my favourite studies... Feedback is a double edged sword 🗡. This seminal study found that feedback is one of the best bets for accelerating learning. However, over a third of feedback interventions hindered progress. That is to say, students would have done better if left alone psycnet.apa.org/record/1999-10…

Final thoughts on if students should use ChatGPT for Retrieval Practice. A thread, with lots of video examples...🧵 (1/15) First, we have to establish what Chat GPT is. It is so much more than just googling answer. Powered by AI, it is a chatbox that can learn from its experience, as well as constructing new and original content 🤖. Here is ChatGPT to explain itself...(2/15)

Who wants another thread? 🙋🏻‍♂️. Sure, let’s do this thing. This one looks at why exams are the fairest form of assessments by doing a deep dive into cognitive biases that are more likely to blight coursework or teacher assessed grades 🧵… Before we look at the biases, it is worth stating the obvious; the aim of any assessment is to be fair and accurate. Externally set, anonymised and externally marked exams can help reduce biases because they take the human subjective element out of it. So what are these biases…

Fancy a Friday thread? Go on then. This one is on PowerPoint. First developed in the 80s, it was never intended to be used in education (was built for businesses). Is now arguably most popular teaching device. Here are 5 studies that give food for thought on how to use it 🧵(1/6) This paper found that giving students access to powerpoint slides as a handout at the start of the lesson helped. It led to better note-taking, less time needed to prepare for a final test and better performance on the final test (2/6)

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A 🧵 exploring gender differences in education. Nationally, girls do better, are more likely to go to Uni, but are less likely to do STEM subjects. What causes these differences?

First 4 studies on parenting, second 6 on schooling. Strap in, some of these findings are wild… Study 1 👶🏻 - it starts early. Researchers asked mothers to estimate how steep a slope their babies could crawl up. Despite equal ability, mothers of daughters underestimated (14 degrees), whereas mothers of sons overestimated (20 degree slopes) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11063631/

One of the biggest challenges in education is that students (and indeed all humans) want autonomy in their lives. And yet a lot of evidence exists to suggest students when left to their own devices make bad decisions about their learning (1/6) 🧵 🧠 Studying: students consistently prefer doing the least effective revision strategy. Several studies have found this when comparing re-reading vs retrieval practice. Here are the results from a couple studies (2/6)