What is cognitive control? Cognitive control is crucial to deep, purposeful learning and is achieved through the following functions (Gazzaley and Rosen, 2016, p80; Parry, 2019): attention – a mental spotlight which needs to be […]
Overview When the Covid-19 pandemic put us fully online, colleagues in King’s Academy needed to expand our repertoire with a range of evolving technologies. Since we lead educational development programmes and sessions, we strive to […]
What is it? After studying independently, students are ask to generate questions about the material. This can also happen after live teaching, when it is sometimes called a ‘Minute paper’ or ‘Exit ticket’. Why do […]
The May 2020 ‘Lightning Lunch’ event was online (you know why) with a panel of four King’s educators responding to questions about teaching online. This panel had shared their practice in advance as five-minute recorded […]
What is it? Forums allow students and staff to have a group conversation, with each participant posting their contributions at times convenient for them. Most posts are text-based, but often support images, links and even […]
This is an evaluation guide. What is it? An interview is a discussion, individually or in a group, prompted by a series of questions. Interview questions tend to be open-ended (if you need to ask […]
This is an evaluation guide. Pat Hutchings’ (2000) taxonomy of educational inquiry questions can be helpful in specifying the main purpose of your evaluation. “What works” questions are evaluative; they set out to prove effectiveness. […]
This is an evaluation guide. What is it? A questionnaire is an efficient, economical way to obtain a large amount of responses. When administered digitally, questionnaires scale up with minimal extra resource since they tend […]
This is an evaluation guide. What is it? Classroom observation protocols support the collection and categorisation of observational data about what students are doing in relation to what their educator is doing, typically in large […]
This is an evaluation guide. What is it? A concept inventory is a standardised multiple choice instrument developed collaboratively by subject experts to test students’ understanding of core concepts. It is used as a pre- […]
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