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Here are a couple of new additions to The Best Resources For Learning About The 10,000 Hour Rule & Deliberate Practice: 10,000 Hours May Not Make a Master After All is from TIME. The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or … Continue reading → Read More...
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren is the title of a new study finding that schools providing computers to students for home use resulted in no academic gains: Computers are an important Read More...
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Grammar Errors? The Brain Detects Them Even When You Are Unaware is a report from Science Daily on new research related to grammar. I’ve got to admit I’m still not sure I understand the description of the researcher’s experiment, but … Continue reading Read More...
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A study was unveiled last week suggesting that reading and math skills at age seven accurately predict your socio-economic status at the age of 42. You can read about it here and here. I’m not sure this is that big … Continue reading → Read More...
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Photo Credit: flattop341 via Compfight I’ve written a lot about self-control (see The Best Posts About Helping Students Develop Their Capacity For Self-Control and lesson plans in my books). A year ago I wrote about a newer study suggesting the … Continue Read More...
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Sex Differences in Mathematics and Reading Achievement Are Inversely Related: Within- and Across-Nation Assessment of 10 Years of PISA Data is the long title of a new study. Here’s an excerpt: Read More...
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Photo Credit: Pimkie via Compfight The nineteen year career I had as a community organizer before I became a educator a decade ago has had a major influence in how I teach. One lesson I constantly remember is the importance … Continue reading → Read More...
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Photo Credit: Oliver Hammond via Compfight I’ve previously posted about a simple writing exercise that was shown to particularly help African American students increase their academic achievement (see Useful Writing Exercise For Helping Students Develop Read More...
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The San Francisco Chronicle has just published a length story from The Associated Press titled Instruction of students learning English bleak. Here’s a quote from it: Read More...
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The evidence demonstrating the dangers of extrinsic rewards and the importance of helping people develop intrinsic motivation is pretty overwhelming at this point (see The Best Posts & Articles On “Motivating” Students). The Harvard Business Review has Read More...
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SEDL often publishes very useful research briefings, but I wouldn’t put their new one on formative assessment into that category. It does provide excellent research that any teacher can use to support his/her use of formative assessment in the classroom. Read More...
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I’ve written in my new book, Self-Driven Learning, about how I use “descriptive norms” in the classroom, and The New York Times today published a lengthy column on the same topic (though they called it “social norming”). Here’s a portion … Continue reading Read More...
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Teen mentors inspire healthier choices in younger children is a report on a new study demonstrating the effectiveness of older students mentoring younger ones. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On The Value & Practice Of Having Older Students … Continue Read More...
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Photo Credit: Gioia De Antoniis via Compfight A few minutes ago I published a post that repeated my admiration for Carol Dweck’s work, one of numerous posts I’ve written sharing that perspective. However, I did publish one a couple of … Continue reading Read More...
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Today, Forbes published a rather odd article on student motivation that kept on getting confused between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. In my eyes, though, what was really important about the article is that it linked to a report from the … Continue Read More...
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