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SUMMARY:Modelling the impact of cognitive abilities on science learning - 
 Professor Andy Tolmie\, UCL Institute of Education
DTSTART:20170523T153000Z
DTEND:20170523T170000Z
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CONTACT:Araceli Hopkins
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Research has identified a range of broad and specifi
 c cognitive abilities that predict success in reading and mathematics\, an
 d this knowledge increasingly informs teaching. However\, there is a lack 
 of comparable work which pinpoints the core skills that underlie success i
 n science. I will present three studies covering learners in Key Stages 1 
 to 3 and a range of science topics\, which indicate an important role for 
 both general and specific language abilities\, but also a more elusive inf
 luence of executive function and inhibitory control. Taken together\, the 
 results from these studies suggest that in order to make progress we may n
 eed more refined theoretical models of what science learning involves as w
 ell as targeted empirical research.\n\n\nProfile\nAndy Tolmie is Chair of 
 Psychology and Human Development at the UCL Institute of Education\, Unive
 rsity College London. He is also Deputy Director of the Birkbeck/UCL Centr
 e for Educational Neuroscience and was Editor of the British Journal of Ed
 ucational Psychology from 2007-12. He is a developmental psychologist with
  longstanding interests in the growth of children's implicit and explicit 
 conceptual representations\, their behavioural skills\, and the relationsh
 ips between these\, particularly in the elementary school age range. Most 
 of his work has focused on educationally-relevant topics and settings\, wi
 th a substantial emphasis on science learning. He is currently lead for UC
 L on an large-scale randomised control trial funded by the Educational End
 owment Foundation and the Wellcome Trust\, testing a method of promoting i
 nhibitory control in the learning of counterintuitive concepts in science 
 and mathematics.
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, (ro
 om GS4  Donald McIntyre Building)
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