Category Archives: Research

The pendulum swings

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After the hype about digital tools in education, the Swedish now rethink the strategy and believe things may have gotten too far. Back to paper and pencil believe some.

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Multivariate Treatment of Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia

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Thorough research here with the implementation of a longitudinal case study over the elementary school years of a students who had difficulties in multiple areas: dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia combined with anxiety. The response to multiple intervention was recorded over time and the progress information greatly helped getting the learning disability diagnosis.

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Best time to learn multiplication tables

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Well they didn’t actually study this yet but a study in the UK looked at what the best time would be for learning more complex multiplications. Their conclusion was:

This study has identified a beneficial effect of learning prior to sleep on recall of complex multiplication problems compared with learning these problems during the daytime. Future research should explore whether similar effects are observed with children learning simple multiplication facts.

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Talk is good

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This research showed a strong link between a given student’s talk time and number of utterances featuring reasoning and that student’s achievement. As for student talk time, a connection at the classroom level was also identified-students in talkative classrooms had better results. However, there was not a connection between utterances with reasoning and better results at the classroom level. A positive link between individual participation and achievement was observed in all students regardless of socioeconomic background or gender.

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About the mindset

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A great new webpage made by youcubed, that has information and the latest research about the importance of mindset. You may be familiar with the growth mindset and the fixed mindset. On this page you will find latest research about it.

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