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. Professional Development & Cognitive Load
2. Practice-Based Teacher Education Pedagogies Improve Responsiveness
3. 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. Seating arrangements that promote positive academic and behavioural outcomes

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. A Comparison of Choral and Individual Responding

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. Wait Time: Slowing Down May Be A Way of Speeding Up
4. Self-explaining: The dual processes of generating inferences and repairing mental models

Confidence

1. Learning from Errors
2. Long-term hypercorrection, return errors, and the transfer of learning in the classroom

Practice and problem-solving

1. Teachers’ use of time and student achievement
2. Learning to think mathematically
3. 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. Making Things Hard on Yourself, But in a Good Way: Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning
6. Spacing and Interleaving of Study and Practice
7. Optimal spacing schedule
8. Testing (Quizzing) Boosts Classroom Learning
9. Understanding performance in test taking: The role of question difficulty order
10. Retrieving better: A guide to retrieval practice
11. Retrieval Practice “in the Wild”

Homework, marking and feedback

1. A marked improvement? A review of the evidence on written marking