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FNPs: Frequently Needed Pointers

This is like a page of FAQs except:
a) Those aren't usually lists of questions but of questions PLUS answers (FAQ&As?) – and this page is a list of answers without the questions. So: frequently needed starting points.
b) They are answers to what I want to tell some person or persons i.e. not strictly their questions, but something I want them to know or at least know where to start looking.

So, in effect, this is the index to some frequently needed pointers e.g. telling students or other researchers where to get a first idea about some educational theory; or examples of using asterisks in a stats table to show which numbers are statistically significant.

List of pointers

• It is also worth browsing my online list of education-related references in case you can find useful references there.
  Similarly you might browse some expositions of classic and important learning designs e.g.   Jigsaw,   Patchwork Text,   Sugata Mitra's self-organising education,   Reciprocal peer critiquing.
• Contingent tutoring: a theory of what constitutes optimal tutoring or teaching.
  • Go to my list of educational refs.
  • Almost at the bottom are the 3 papers with Dave Wood as first author. They all refer to the same studies; you need to read all three to get all the aspects. (B.T.W. one of them is where the term "scaffolding" was introduced to the educational literature.)
• Mastery Learning. Bloom84 paper; effect size; "Feedback-corrective approach". He says he started this work about 1969. He used the term "effect size" before it was widely discussed, as well as "sigma".
• Chi's framework. ICAP
• Snyder
• Mindsets
• Margolis [CMU]
• Lab classes in science: read Etkaterina ...
• Minimal Manual work; and key lessons.
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• List of researchers you should know about: Chi, Ann Brown, Sfard, ... Bloom, .... Howe, ... Papert, ...
• Creating the skeleton for a thesis i.e. how to do the hardest, but most satisfying, bit of writing up your PhD (or other great paper).

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