by Dr. Charlotte Forrest | Oct 14, 2018 | Education, Research, Users
What is the myth of Dale’s Cone of Experience? Although not as widespread as some of the other learning myths, if you put the search term ‘Dale’s Cone of Experience’ into google you receive a myriad of pages supporting it. These even include pages from university...
by Dr. Charlotte Forrest | Oct 14, 2018 | Education, Research, Users
What is retrieval? A lot of attention has been paid over the years to how memories are formed. But this is only part of remembering. As well as creating a memory you also need to be able to get it out. This process is known as retrieval (Tulving & Thomson, 1973)....
by Dr. Charlotte Forrest | Oct 14, 2018 | Education, Research, Users
Why you should space and interleave your learning…. It may seem very tempting to leave all your revision to the last minute and just cram it in. But this isn’t the best way to get the most out of your brain. For about a hundred years psychologists have known...
by Jenn Linning | Oct 14, 2018 | English, Key Stage 4, Revision, Students
In the English Language GCSE, many students fall into the ‘effect on the reader’ trap. The trap is that they have learned some basic phrases about what effects a writer can create, and then they use these phrases to describe the effect of any language device they...
by Get My Grades | Oct 9, 2018 | Education, Tutors
Let’s dispel the media myth and sort the wheat from the chaff. Tutoring is not about educating rich kids on superyachts for thousands of pounds per hour. It is not commonly regular employment. It is not without sacrifices. There is little daytime work. Tutoring mostly...
by Dr. Charlotte Forrest | Oct 4, 2018 | Research, Teachers, Tutors, Users
Japan has one of the best education systems in the world. One aspect of their success may be down to their belief that what grade you can achieve is a matter of effort and very little to do with your genetics (Crehan, 2016). From a very young age, this idea is...
