The Evidence Library is for the people who teach: teachers, lecturers, tutors and student-success staff who want to know what the research on learning says and what to do with it on Monday. It is free and needs no account.
Every card names one study and tells you, in plain words, what it found, what it means in a classroom or lecture hall, one thing to try this week, how strong the evidence is, and a question for the staff meeting. The full reference and a link to the paper sit on every card. Each study was checked against its abstract or full text before it went in, numbers appear only where the paper reports them, and the strength of the evidence is graded honestly as strong, moderate, emerging or contested. Where a finding has failed to replicate or its size is disputed, the card says so.
The themes run from How memory works, Retrieval practice and Spacing and interleaving to Explaining well, Feedback and assessment, Thinking about thinking, Motivation, mindset and belonging, and Teaching at university. One theme reads the large syntheses of meta-analyses and explains how to read their numbers, and Myths to let go of covers popular ideas that the research does not support, with what to do instead. A typical suggestion for the week: end a lesson with three minutes of writing down everything you remember from today, books closed.
Staffroom view puts any study on the big screen with its question underneath, for the start of a staff meeting or a training session. I suggest you begin by drawing one for the staffroom. For depth, the course Teach with the Evidence builds on these same studies.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, LearnSmart4Life