Month: February 2015

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The Reading Achievement Challenge revisited and Cognitive Load Theory (2 of 3)

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To begin with I need to re-state what is at the heart of Cognitive Load Theory (CLT), according to its proponents John Sweller, Jeroen van Meriënboer, Paul Kirschner, Daniel Willingham and others. What CLT emphasises is that working memory is severely constrained in terms of both capacity and duration. The argument is that we can… Continue reading The Reading Achievement Challenge revisited and Cognitive Load Theory (2 of 3)

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The reading achievement challenge

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In her education blog for the Huffington Post, Karin Chenoweth cites recent figures from the (United States’) Nation’s Report Card on reading. Even though there has been a marginal improvement since the early nineties, the statistics are still shocking: 52% of ‘eighth-graders (year 9 in UK) whose parents graduated from college can’t read at the proficient level… Continue reading The reading achievement challenge