Exam Study Expert: ace your exams with the science of learning William Wadsworth

We're concluding our special "Teaching Learning Skills" mini-series this week with a case study on building a tutor time study skills programme.

Packed with highly practical details, with today's special guest Katie Holmes.

Follow Katie: @KatieEHolmes_, https://twitter.com/KatieEHolmes_

From your host:

Retrieval buy-in lesson resource:

>> https://ExamStudyExpert.com/retrieval-lesson

Discover the Revision Census

>> https://examstudyexpert.com/revision-census

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Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

TEACHING RESOURCES: https://examstudyexpert.com/workbook

SPEAKING / WORKSHOPS: https://examstudyexpert.com/workshops

Today, we're continuing our special educator-focused mini series with a chance to step back and take stock of the rise of evidence-based practice in education. 

Our headline guest today is founder of the researchED conference series, Tom Bennett OBE, and I'm joined towards the end of the episode by a couple of other recent guests giving their perspectives on the question of how far we've come in terms of getting evidence into education, and how we might develop further in this direction.

Links and resources from today's episode:


Tom's website / socials:  https://tombennetttraining.co.uk/, @tombennett71Running The Room (book): https://geni.us/behaviour*ResearchED: https://researched.org.uk/Follow Haili @HughesHailiPeps' Evidence Snacks: https://snacks.pepsmccrea.com/Revision Census research: https://examstudyexpert.com/Revision-Census
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Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

TEACHING RESOURCES: https://examstudyexpert.com/workbook

SPEAKING / WORKSHOPS: https://examstudyexpert.com/workshops

TAKE THE REVSION CENSUS: https://examstudyexpert.com/revision-census

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To kick off this week's special "for teachers" series, we're welcoming Dr Haili Hughes to talk about how to be an effective mentor to students in their study skills, and what good pedagogy for "learning to learn" should include.

- Mentoring in Schools [book]: https://geni.us/haili*

- Follow Haili @HughesHaili: https://twitter.com/HughesHaili

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Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

TEACHING RESOURCES: https://examstudyexpert.com/workbook

SPEAKING / WORKSHOPS: https://examstudyexpert.com/workshops

Get a copy of Outsmart Your Exams, my award-winning exam technique book, at https://geni.us/exams*

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Today, we're welcoming Amarbeer Singh Gill, author of "Dunlosky's Strengthening The Student Toolbox In Action", to help us unpick some of less well-known (but still very useful!) strategies from John Dunlosky's famous 2013 review of the most effective study strategies.

Join us to learn when (and how) to use strategies like:


Elaborative interrogationSelf-explanationMental imagerySummarisationInterleaving and other tips for studying maths
Part of the Memory & Learning series here on the Exam Study Expert podcast this month.

Dunlosky's Strengthening the Student Toolbox: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1021069.pdf

Singh's website and book: https://unpackingeducation.wixsite.com/home/book

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Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

BOOK 1:1 COACHING to supercharge your exam success: https://examstudyexpert.com/workwithme/

Get a copy of Outsmart Your Exams, my award-winning exam technique book, at https://geni.us/exams*

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We're kicking off a new series on Memory & Learning with a deep-dive into memory fundamentals.

We're guided in this fascinating and illuminating conversation by Peps McCrea award-winning teacher educator and author. 

Even if you're familiar with some of the basics, Peps has a wonderful way of using analogy to deepen your intuition about what's really going on when we learn and later recall information.

With practical takeaways interspersed throughout, this episode is not to be missed!

Discover Peps' work via:

- Peps' website: https://pepsmccrea.com/

- "Evidence Snacks" email at: https://snacks.pepsmccrea.com/

- Memorable Teaching [book] at: https://geni.us/memorable-teaching*

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Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

WANT ME TO SPEAK AT YOUR SCHOOL? Learn more at: https://examstudyexpert.com/revision-workshops

Get a copy of my ultra-concise "6 Pillars Of Exam Success" Cheat Sheet at https://examstudyexpert.com/pillars/

BOOK 1:1 COACHING to supercharge your exam success: https://examstudyexpert.com/workwithme/

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Retrieval practice is the shortcut to learning faster and remembering more, but nearly everyone under-utilises it (at least some of the time), even once you know about it and why it matters.

Why?

Today I'm breaking down the big 5 barriers to consistent retrieval practice that I most commonly see, and show you how to overcome them.

Mentioned in this episode:
Episode 69. Rose's student story (high school student)Episode 71. Divine's student story (accounting professional exams)Episode 73. Michael's student story (school / university student career)Episode 75. Charlie's student story (law conversion exams)Episode 108. Sibo's student story (board-level medical exams)Episode 111. Adam's student story (dyslexia and finance exams)Episode 123 on How Many Hours Should You Study Episode 53 on Are You Working Too Hard 
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Hosted by William Wadsworth, memory psychologist, independent researcher and study skills coach. I help ambitious students to study smarter, not harder, so they can ace their exams with less work and less stress.

BOOK 1:1 COACHING to supercharge your exam success: https://examstudyexpert.com/coaching

SCHOOL WORKSHOPS https://examstudyexpert.com/workshops

Get a copy of Outsmart Your Exams, my award-winning exam technique book, at https://geni.us/exams

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