For a period of about 10 years, whilst I was doing an MA (through the OU) and my wife was studying for her Cog Sci degree (a 1st actually, thank you for asking) I was fortunate enough to have access to the online journal libraries of the respective Universities. It was wonderful. I could actually… Read More Read all about it
When I was training as an accountant and running audits we were taught that there were different levels of reliability of evidence. The least reliable was oral evidence from the the client. The most reliable was written evidence provided by an external, independent organisation in response to a specific request made by the audit team.… Read More Evidence you can take to the bank
Its been a couple of weeks (and many answering blogposts) since Dr Ben Goldacre launched his paper on research in education, specifically discussing some of the benefits of using Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) and generally suggesting that evidence is a good thing. Nothing in this post should be construed as suggesting that any part of… Read More Tramadol nights
This article by John T. E. Richardson (Educational Psychology, Vol 25, No 6 December 2005, pp. 673-680) looks at some the research in these two areas over the past 25 years. Starting from the idea that students adopt different learning strategies depending on “the content, context and demands of a particular task” a number of… Read More Students’ Approaches to Learning and Teachers’ Approaches to Teaching in Higher Education
Distant Ramblings on the Horizon 