Research Library These articles are a great starting point for any research, change or policy based project. Improving Literacy in Key Stage Two EEF
Good literacy skills provide us with the building blocks not just for academic success, but for fulfilling careers and rewarding lives.
Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools EEF
Young people who leave school without good literacy skills are held back at every stage of life.
Three things systems thinkers do Cabrera Research
Your brain will process information into mental models (organised information that affects how we see the world). Organised stuff becomes useable knowledge.
Visual thinking strategies = creative and critical thinking Kappan
The synergy that occurs between creativity and critical thinking allows powerful learning to occur.
Making Thinking Visible Ron Ritchhart
When learners speak, write, or draw their ideas, they deepen their cognition. Project Zero's Visible Thinking approach shows how.
Habits of Mind Self Assessment Unknown
A short reflection activity for children.
Habits of Mind How2s
Traditional settings focus on how many answers a student knows. When we teach for the Habits of Mind, we are interested also in how students behave when they don't know an answer.
Life Lessons: Improving essential life skills for young people The Sutton Trust
Adult life requires a range of skills in order for people to flourish, both in the workplace and in their daily lives, from the confidence and motivation to seek challenges and complete tasks, to the interpersonal skills that aid teamwork and other social interactions.
Worldwide Educating For the Future Index The Economist
The rapid development of digital technology and the globalised nature of economic systems are creating an entirely new set of educational challenges for the world to adapt to.
The impact of non-cognitive skills on outcomes for young people EEF
The term ‘non-cognitive skills’ refers to a set of attitudes, behaviours, and strategies that are thought to underpin success in school and at work, such as motivation, perseverance, and self-control.
Hard Thinking About Soft Skills Guy Claxton and Arthur Costa
Habits like persisting and drawing on past knowledge are some of the most essential dispositions we can teach.
The emergence and early development of self regulation in young children Cambridge University
Metacognitive and self-regulatory abilities are of fundamental significance for children’s general and academic development, and also, that these abilities are highly teachable.
EEF Metacognition Summary EEF
Metacognition and Self Regulated Learning Summary of recommendations
Dual Coding and Visual Oliver Caviglioli
People learn better from graphics and words than from words alone... you can help people learn better if you include appropriately designed graphics in instructional presentations.
Memory and Meaning Oliver Caviglioli
Understanding is memory in disguise.
Dual Coding to Explain Ideas Oliver Caviglioli
People learn better from graphics and words than from words alone - says Richard E Mayer.
Dual Coding to Organise Ideas Oliver Caviglioli
If we can entertain the notion that ideas are objects, then we have a new way of understanding how to organise them.
Collaborative Reasoning: Expanding Ways for Children to Talk and Think in School Educational Psychology Review
Collaborative Reasoning discussions are intended to create a forum for children to listen to one another think out loud as they learn to engage in reasoned argumentation.
Collaborative problem-solving and why it matters for learning Rose Luckin - University College London
Collaborative problem-solving is a key skill for the workplace, and its importance is only likely to grow as further automation takes place.
Playful Writing University of Cambridge
Building stories together to inspire young writers: a teacher handbook
Children with better co-ordination more likely to achieve at school University of Leeds
Young children with better eye-to-hand co-ordination were more likely to achieve higher scores for reading, writing and maths according to new research.
Summary of the benefits of Lego Various
A short outline of why building bricks are so important.
Back to the basics with six bricks Brent Hutcheson
Deceptively simple but extremely powerful educational approach.
Blocks: “Standard” Equipment for Today’s Primary Classrooms Sean Durham
Blocks: Great Learning Tools From Infancy Through the Primary Grades
Low achievers during collaborative problem solving Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations, University of Northern Iowa
he purpose of this study was to extend this research by examining the influence of additional factors, in particular, achievement goals and comprehension monitoring, on low achieving students’ constructive activity after receiving help from a high achieving peer.
From Cognitive Load Theory to Collaborative Cognitive Load Theory Paul Kirschner & John Sweller
We illustrate how and why cognitive load theory, by adding these concepts, can throw light on collaborative learning and generate principles specific to the design and study of collaborative learning.
Solved! Making the case for collaborative problem-solving NESTA
The evidence set out in this report confirms a great deal of research which has shown the rising importance of a cluster of skills that are both very ancient, and very relevant to the near future.
How can we foster creativity in school? OECD
Andreas Schleicher, Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD addresses an audience in Paris.
Teaching Inference Robert J. Marzano
Thinking and reasoning processes such as problem solving, decision making, and the like have been identified as legitimate and even necessary 21st century skills. Making inferences is the foundation to many higher-level thinking processes.
Skill 5: Critical Thinking Ellen Galinsky and Nicole Gardner
In this issue, Ellen and Nicole discuss the fifth life skill, critical thinking, and offer teachers practical suggestions for promoting this skill in their work with preschoolers.
Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools The Foundation for Critical Thinking
This miniature guide focuses on of the essence of critical thinking concepts and tools distilled into pocket size.
How to Teach Critical Thinking Daniel T. Willingham
Despite consensus on the need for critical thinking, there is still considerable debate over how it is learned and, subsequently, how education can best support students to develop critical thinking capabilities.
Durham Commission on Creativity and Education Durham University
The Commission is a joint research collaboration between Durham University and Arts Council England, convened to look at the role creativity and creative thinking should play in the education of young people.