Training Assessment Education

Category: Research

  • Motivation – what’s new

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    Darren
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    By coincidence I have been training a number of groups across different programs the importance of motivation. I have a number of different strategies that I use to cover this very big topic but I recently found a great video clip which has proven to be extremely useful. I haven’t read Daniel’s book on this…

  • Brain posts

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    Thanks to the guest bloggers who posted last week. Great work. I recently found two small articles on the brain. I think it is important that all trainers keep up to date with what is going on in the world of brain research as we have to deal with the brain and any tips into…

  • Education at its worst

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    Darren
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    This just popped up on the ABC news feed and this sort of information really irritates me, even on a relaxing Sunday afternoon. Please read the report and make your own conclusions. How someone makes the jump that increased enrolments in Public Schools are due to the MySchool website is either the worst researcher in…

  • What aren’t you teaching?

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    Darren
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    I was surprised by this article. Maybe I shouldn’t be as it is in the USA. Read it here. Basically a survey found that 60% of biology teachers skip around the topic of evolution. Do you think that could be happening in Australia? What about at our many religious orientated private schools? What it got…

  • Teaching literacy with elearning

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    One criticism over the years has been that language, literacy and numeracy does not translate to elearning or that it would be very ineffective. Personally I haven’t read too many articles or research refuting these claims or adding anything positive to the argument. Of course elearning is changing rapidly as the technology changes and due…