Research Summaries Database

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Title	Author	Category	Publisher
Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology January 2013	Professor John Dunlosky, Professor Katherine Rawson, Professor Elizabeth J. Marsh, Professor Mitchell Nathan and Professor Daniel Willingham	Education theory	Association for Psychological Science
What makes great teaching? Review of the underpinning research October 2014	Professor Robert Coe, Cesare Aloisi, Professor Steve Higgins and Dr Lee Elliot Major	Education theory	Sutton Trust and Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring
Brain-based learning: more fiction than fact 2006	Professor Dan Willingham	Learning styles and cognitive development View all	American Educator
Top 20 principles from psychology for pre-K12 teaching and learning May 2015	Dr Joan Lucariello et al	Learning styles and cognitive development Teaching/classroom practice View all	American Psychological Association
Critical thinking: why is it so hard to teach? June 2007	Professor Daniel Willingham	Learning styles and cognitive development View all	American Educator
Make it stick: the science of successful learning April 2014	Peter C. Brown, Professor Henry L. Roediger and Professor Mark A. McDaniel	Assessment Character and non-cognitive development Curriculum planning +4 more	Harvard University Press
High performance learning January 2016	Professor Deborah Eyre	Education theory Social mobility / closing the gap Spiritual, moral, social and cultural education (SMSC) +2 more	Routledge
What every teacher needs to know about psychology July 2016	David Didau and Nick Rose	Learning styles and cognitive development Teaching/classroom practice View all	John Catt Educational