11 May Measuring Critical Thinking: Can It Be Done?
An important reason for measuring critical thinking is that it is a key part of education, whether it is explicitly mentioned within the curriculum or not. ...
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14 Mar School Pilot Test: Overview of Results
Our 7 week school pilot test with GCSE students showed improved boldness in critical thinking due to understanding arguments better, improved independent learning and emotional safety....
02 Mar Curriculum Narrowing: Are the Humanities in Crisis?
Curriculum narrowing is a problem in the UK and in other countries due to pressure to achieve in high-stakes testing of a limited number of subjects....
25 Feb The Benefits of the Humanities: Transferable Skills and Leadership
The humanities, arts and social sciences develop transferable skills and there is evidence that these subjects are linked to leadership....
23 Feb How Dual Coding Helps Students to Understand Arguments
Argument mapping uses a combination of simple statements and symbols to display an argument as a diagram, making it easier to understand....
18 Feb Dual Coding: How to Maximise Learning with Non-Verbal Information
Dual coding theory claims that we process verbal and non-verbal information separately, using two different cognitive systems....
15 Feb Using Cognitive Load Effectively to Increase Learning
Argument mapping was developed as a way of reducing the cognitive load involved in learning arguments. In an argument map, the extraneous load is reduced by only including simple statements that are essential to the argument....
09 Feb The “Need to Know” About Cognitive Load
Ofsted call cognitive load theory "an important contribution to learning science", but what is it? Cognitive load theory has been around for over three decades, but it wasn’t until the last few years that it really started to take off in education....
07 Dec The Argument Graph
Different types of graphic organiser deal with different kinds of information. Some are used to represent relationships between objects. These are typically drawn with boxes representing the objects and lines or arrows representing a relationship between them. A similar approach can be used for arguments....
30 Nov The Problem With Prose
Arguments are normally written as prose in essays and books. These sources consist of nothing but text, which makes them hard to grasp. But the problem for the student is actually much worse than that. For example, if a student is studying Religious Studies, they...
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