Research Summaries Database

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Title	Author	Category	Publisher
What makes an effective teacher? Quasi-experimental evidence: NBER working paper August 2011	Professor Victor Lavy	Education theory	National Bureau of Economic Research
How teachers teach and students learn: successful strategies for school March 2016	Alfonso Echazarra, Dr Daniel Salinas, Ildefonso Méndez, Vanessa Denis and Giannina Rech	Assessment International policy Learning styles and cognitive development +4 more	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Organising instruction and study to improve student learning: a practice guide September 2007	Dr Harold Pashler	Education research Exam techniques Learning styles and cognitive development +3 more	Institute of Education Sciences
The power of mindful learning 1997	Professor Ellen J Langer	Education theory	Perseus Books Group
Overlearning hyperstabilizes a skill by rapidly making neurochemical processing inhibitory-dominant January 2017	Kazuhisa Shibata et al.	Education research Exam techniques Learning styles and cognitive development +1 more	Nature Neuroscience
The effect of prequestions on learning from video presentations 2016	Doctor Shana K. Carpenter and Alexander R. Toftness	Education research Learning styles and cognitive development View all	Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Strengthening the student toolbox: study strategies to boost learning January 2013	Professor John Dunlosky	Learning styles and cognitive development View all	American Educator
What does this look like in the classroom? Bridging the gap between research and practice September 2017	Carl Hendrick, Robin Macpherson	Teaching/classroom practice	John Catt Bookshop
How we learn: the surprising truth about when, where, and why it happens 2014	Benedict Carey	Education theory	Random House
Why don't students like school?: a cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom 2009	Professor Dan Willingham	Education theory	Jossey-Bass
Practice perfect: 42 rules for getting better at getting better 2012 (First Edition, 1967)	Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway and Katie Yezzi	Character and non-cognitive development Performance and accountability Teacher CPD +2 more	Jossey-Bass
Battle hymn of the tiger teachers: the Michaela way November 2016	Katharine Birbalsingh	Behaviour Education policy Education theory +7 more	John Catt Educational
The homework myth: why our kids get too much of a bad thing August 2007	Alfie Kohn	Using education research View all	Perseus Book Group