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  The Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review published in 2020 by Professor Rob Coe et al, focused on answering a key question: What are the best bets for teachers to invest time and effort [...]

Cognitive offloading is something people do naturally and instinctively, on a daily basis or regular recurrence, often without realising they are doing so. When an individual is required to [...]

I have written extensively about Retrieval Practice, and it is a field where I continue to learn and reflect on. Not only is our understanding of memory and learning developing, but the advances [...]

Chunking, also known as ‘The Segmenting Principle’, indicates that learning can be optimised when material is presented to students in segments or smaller related chunks, rather than as a [...]

  To be curious is to wish to discover and know more; it is the desire to learn. Jonathan Firth and Marc Smith stated (2018) that learning activities that combine novelty, curiosity and [...]