Author: aeodeneal
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Why I hate formula triangles
For one of my PGCE interviews, I was told to prepare a lesson plan for a physics lesson (which made sense since I was applying to the PGCE Physics with Maths). I figured I’d link the two, and do a lesson on speed-distance-time calculations. I remember at school some people using formula triangles (often misnamed…
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Achievement goal theory and target grades
In my first blog post (about the systematic review process), I mentioned that the process had forced me to investigate some theories that relate to the topic I’m interested in. One of the theories that comes up most frequently is achievement goal theory. Hopefully this will explain it well enough. What is achievement goal theory?…
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Lessons from Lockdown
Lockdown had its positives, but it also had its negatives. I’m having a look at what’s going to go, and what’s going to stay.
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Systematic literature reviews and ‘trusting the process’
“Oh, a systematic literature review is probably just another name for a normal literature review. I’ve done those before. That’ll be easy!” How wrong I was. On an EdD (a ‘professional doctorate’, i.e. designed for practitioners), there is a taught stage before moving onto the thesis. On my course, there are two taught doctoral-level modules.…
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