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Infographic showing how spacing improves retention.

Same Hours, Spread Out, Better Results

I was sitting in a middle leadership meeting three years ago, staring at a shiny new “Learning Science” toolkit that promised to...

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Diagram explaining how the testing effect works.

Testing Yourself Beats Rereading Every Time

I remember sitting in a windowless professional development suite five years ago, nodding politely while a consultant in a slim-fit suit explained...

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Diagram explaining how forgetting works.

Forgetting Is Retrieval Failure, Not Erasure

I remember sitting in a windowless training room back in 2012, staring at a PowerPoint slide that promised a “revolutionary breakthrough” in...

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Understanding how schemas develop in experts.

Experts Have Better Organised Knowledge, Not More

I remember sitting in a windowless training room ten years ago, nodding politely while a consultant in a slim-fit suit used a...

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How working memory limits learning with items.

Four Items and Then It Spills

I remember standing at the front of a Year 9 class on a rainy Tuesday afternoon, midway through what I thought was...

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Understanding how memory works in learning.

Learning Is a Change in Long Term Memory

I was sitting in a middle leadership seminar last Tuesday—one of those “professional development” sessions that could have been a well-constructed email—listening...

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