I try to implement the following knowledge in my teachings.
Here they are in three words: examples, practice and quizzes. Worked examples, extended practice and frequent quizzes are much-underestimated and under-valued, but there’s a huge volume of scientific research behind them.
A hundred years of replicated scientific research can begin to tell us not only what works, but what works best, and why.
Three applications of cognitive science
by Joe Kirby
Posted on April 6, 2014
From a hundred years of research, there are three deceptively simple insights that when applied well in the classroom, have very powerful effects. They are not quick wins, silver bullets or revolutionary innovations. Instead, they offer something more modest: a chance to focus our teaching and help pupils remember what they’re learning. And expert teachers have been doing them since time immemorial.
Many of the references I’ve collated above are from the peer-reviewed paper of five cognitive psychologists (Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan and Willingham) that synthesises over a century of scientific research evidence.
Read more: https://pragmaticreform.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/3-apps-cognitive-science/