Education is changing. Understanding how people learn must change with it.
Explore perspectives on learning, educational psychology, assessment, student development, pedagogy and educational innovation.
Classrooms have changed faster in the last decade than in the four before it, and much of that change arrived without evidence attached. What actually helps a person learn is comparatively well studied and comparatively little used. Here we write about educational psychology, assessment in schools, how students develop, and which of the newer practices are supported by something more than enthusiasm.
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Learning styles: a comfortable idea that measurement does not support
The claim is not that people are all alike. It is that sorting them into visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners does not improve how they are…
What marks measure, and what they miss
Marks are the most available information about a student and the most over-interpreted.
The corridor conversation: what teachers are actually asked
Most career guidance in a school happens in two minutes, standing up, from someone who has had no training for it.
