Research summaries

I have used NotebookLM to summarise research papers that have influenced my thinking and practice. Click on a link to:

1. Read a summary of the paper
2. Listen to a deep-dive podcast
3. Read a breakdown of the key insights for teachers
4. Read a quote from the paper

The danger with any summary is that you take it as a complete representation of the paper. I have provided a link to the original paper so you can do your own digging.

Enjoy!

Making changes to our practice

1. Teaching Practice: A Cross-Professional Perspective
2. Professional Development & Cognitive Load
3. Practice-Based Teacher Education Pedagogies Improve Responsiveness
4. EAST – Four simple ways to apply behavioural insights

Explicit instruction

1. Project Follow Through
2. Why minimal guidance during instruction does not work
3. Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction
4. Learning about learning
5. The Components of Direct Instruction
6. Testing the meshing hypothesis in prospective teachers
7. Seating arrangements that promote positive academic and behavioural outcomes
8. The Opportunity Makers: How a Diverse Group of Public Schools Helps Students Catch Up — and How Far More Can
9. Improving educational outcomes in America

Cognitive load theory

1. The transient information effect
2. The Moderating Role of Interest in the Relationship between Perceived Task Difficulty and Invested Mental Effort

Means of participation

1. Engaging “silent” students
2. Analysing student talk in whole-class teaching
3. Exploring the relationship between metacognitive and collaborative talk during group mathematical problem-solving
4. A Comparison of Choral and Individual Responding
5. Cooperative Learning and Achievement

Checking for listening

1. Attention contagion online
2. Listen up, kids! How mind wandering affects immediate and delayed memory in children

Checking for understanding

1. The Dunning-Kruger Effect
2. Inside the Black Box
3. An analysis of undergraduate core material in the light of hand-held computer algebra systems (Pointon and Sangwin’s question taxonomy
4. Wait Time: Slowing Down May Be A Way of Speeding Up
5. Self-explaining: The dual processes of generating inferences and repairing mental models
6. Effective Questioning and Responding in the Mathematics Classroom
7. A Study of Students’ Readiness to Learn Calculus
8. Student-generated examples in the learning of mathematics
9. Learning about Functions through Learner-Generated Examples

Multiple-choice questions

1. Using Diagnostic Classroom Assessment: One Question at a Time
2. Diagnostic Questions: Is There Value in Just One?
3. Feedback enhances the positive effects and reduces the negative effects of multiple-choice testing
4. Optimizing Multiple-Choice Questions for Retrieval Practice
5. The Derring Effect: Deliberate Errors Enhance Learning

Confidence

1. Learning from Errors
2. Long-term hypercorrection, return errors, and the transfer of learning in the classroom
3. School students’ confidence when answering diagnostic questions online

Modelling and Worked examples

1. Teaching with Worked Examples – Why the Selection of Problems for Exemplification is Critical
2. Worked Examples Moderate the Effect of Math Learning Anxiety
3. Instructing students on effective sequences of examples and problems
4. Low-Inference Verbal Behaviors Related to Teacher Clarity
5. The effect of clarity on learning: impacting motivation through cognitive load
6. Two meta-analyses exploring the relationship between teacher clarity and student learning
7. Keep it Coherent: A Meta-Analysis of the Seductive Details Effect
8. The lure of seductive details during lecture learning
9. Different types of redundancy and their effect on learning and cognitive load
10. Using multimedia for e-learning
11. Five ways to increase the effectiveness of instructional video
12. Watching videos of a drawing hand improves students’ understanding of the normal probability distribution
13. Reducing cognitive load by mixing auditory and visual presentation modes
14. A meta-analysis of signaling principle in multimedia learning environments

Practice and problem-solving

1. Teachers’ use of time and student achievement
2. An astonishing regularity in student learning rate
3. Problem-solving in the mathematics curriculum
4. Learning to think mathematically
5. Critical thinking – why is it so hard to teach?

Memory and retrieval

1. A new theory of disuse
2. On the Symbiosis of Learning and Forgetting
3. Replication and Analysis of Ebbinghaus ’Forgetting Curve
4. Learning Versus Performance: An Integrative Review
5. Retrieving better: A guide to retrieval practice
6. Retrieval Practice “in the Wild”
7. Change in Students’ Educational Expectations
8. The effect of hint strength on the benefits of retrieval practice

Desirable difficulties

1. Making Things Hard on Yourself, But in a Good Way: Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning
2. Testing (Quizzing) Boosts Classroom Learning
3. Using Spacing to Enhance Diverse Forms of Learning
4. Understanding performance in test taking: The role of question difficulty order
5. Spacing and Interleaving of Study and Practice
6. Spacing and Interleaving Effects Require Distinct Theoretical Bases
7. Optimal spacing schedule
8. A randomised control trial of interleaved maths practice
9. Pretesting Enhances Learning in the Classroom
10. Effects of initial context processing on long-term memory
11. Strengthening the Student Toolbox

Homework, marking and feedback

1. A marked improvement? A review of the evidence on written marking
2. Homework literature review
3. Adolescents’ Homework Performance in Mathematics and Science
4. Homework Works if Homework Quality Is High
5. Should parents be involved in their children’s schooling?
6. Effects of Temporary Mark Withholding on Academic Performance