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Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is ‘fundamentally flawed’

The Hechinger Report

In December 2022, the Campbell Collaboration, a widely respected international nonprofit organization that reviews research evidence for public policy purposes, also concluded that the benefits for inclusion were inconsistent and inconclusive. Scores declined in some states. Only 15 studies survived. He did not study those.

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Embedding a culture of retrieval in Psychology

A Psychology Teacher Writes

In Psychology (for our specification at least) students typically study material for paper 1 in year 12 and then paper 2 content in year 13. Then I mapped out year 1 topics from the specification (Edexcel Psychology in this case) across the weeks, to have covered all the major areas in the time available.

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International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT

The Hechinger Report

The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 changed the world. These are typically low-stakes homework assignments where a professor might ask students to post their thoughts on a reading assignment in, say, psychology or biology. A chatbot could instantly write paragraphs and papers, a task once thought to be uniquely human.

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Easy Application of Interleaving in the Classroom

The Effortful Educator

Psychological Science, 33(5), 782-788. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(11), 1699. Sana, F., & Yan, V. Interleaving retrieval practice promotes science learning. Carvalho, P. F., & Goldstone, R.

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PROOF POINTS: Does growth mindset matter? The debate heats up

The Hechinger Report

Two meta-analyses on growth mindset were published online in the fall of 2022 in the journal Psychological Bulletin and arrived at opposite conclusions about one of the most popular ideas in education. How could two such studies come out within just three weeks of each other in Psychological Bulletin and arrive at opposite conclusions?

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Sociology Film Club

ShortCutsTV

A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete Psychology library of films to schools and colleges at a reasonable and affordable subscription rate (£25 a year or roughly 50p a week for access to what is currently 50+ […]

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PROOF POINTS: Flashcards prevail over repetition in memorizing multiplication tables

The Hechinger Report

A study published in 2023 in the journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology documented that second graders memorized more multiplication facts when they practiced using flashcards rather than by repeating their times tables aloud. The 2022 experiment took place in four second grade classrooms in the Netherlands.