Improving Learning How to Learn

Mary James, Robert McCormick, Paul Black, Patrick Carmichael, Mary-Jane Drummond, Alsion Fox, John MacBeath, Bethan Marshall, David Pedder, Richard proctor, Sue Swaffield, Joanna Swan, Dylan Wiliam

"The researchers explicitly invite others into the discussion of the role of assessment in helping students learn how to learn. They achieve this goal well and early on. Their text is refreshingly readable and an illustration of the pedagogy they propose."--Teaching Theology and Religion, April 2010, 183-184

• Part 1: What is the Issue? 1. Learning How to Learn through Assessment for Learning: Investigating Conditions of Effective Practice Part 2: What Does the Research Tell Us? 2. Patterns of Practice, Values and Outcomes across Schools and over Time: An Agenda for Inquiry 3. What Teachers Can Do to Help Pupils to Learn How to Learn 4. Characteristics of Schools in which Teachers Promote Learning How to Learn 5. Learning through Networks 6. Learning How to Learn across Classrooms, Schools and Networks 7. Developing Understanding of Learning, Learning How to Learn and Innovation across Levels Part 3: What are the Overall Implications? 8. Summary and Implications for Policy and Practice