A Parent’s Guide to The Science of Learning: 77 Studies That Every Parent Needs to Know

Length: 184 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2021-08-31
ISBN-10: 0367646587
ISBN-13: 9780367646585
Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)

Supporting parents in the quest to help their children learn as effectively and efficiently as possible, A Parent’s Guide to The Science of Learning translates 77 of the most important and influential studies on student learning into easily digestible overviews. This book will develop parents’ understanding of crucial psychological research so that they can help their children improve how they think, feel and behave in school (and, indeed, in life).

Each overview summarises the key findings from the research and offers tips, hints and strategies for how you can use them in your home. Covering important areas such as memory, motivation, thinking biases and parental attitudes, this book makes complicated research simple, accessible and practical.

From large- to small-scale studies, from the quirky to the iconic, this book breaks down key research to provide parents with the need-to-know facts. Essentially, it is a one-stop shop that offers guidance on how to parent even better.

A Parent’s Guide to The Science of Learning answers the sort of questions that every parent wants to know but doesn’t know where to find the answers. This includes the small, everyday questions through to the big, life-changing ones. Some of the questions answered in this book include:

How much sleep does your child need?
Should I actually help them with their homework?
Why does my child forget what they have just learnt?
How much screen time is too much?
What can I do to help them do better at school?
Is it really that important that we all eat meals together?
How can I help my child learn to better manage their emotions?
How can I encourage them to be a better independent learner?

A hugely accessible resource, this unique book will provide parents with the knowledge they need to best support their children’s learning and development

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
About the authors
Introduction
Studies
	1 The one about memory
	2 The one about aspirations and expectations
	3 The one about the planning fallacy
	4 The one about spacing your learning
	5 The one about growth mindset
	6 The one about predicting future behaviour
	7 The one about teenagers and social rejection
	8 The one about IQ and success
	9 The one about parents and grades
	10 The one about student resilience
	11 The one about marshmallows and self-control
	12 The one about mindset and purpose
	13 The one about spacing and interleaving
	14 The one about parents and failure
	15 The one about revising to music
	16 The one about the Dunning–Kruger Effect
	17 The one about parental praise
	18 The one about effort being contagious
	19 The one about talent bias
	20 The one about retrieval practice
	21 The one about thought suppression
	22 The one about self-analysis over time
	23 The one about asking “why?”
	24 The one about sleep
	25 The one about mobile phones
	26 The one about marshmallows, reliability and self-control
	27 The one about note-taking
	28 The one about Impostor Syndrome
	29 The one about reading out loud
	30 The one about eating breakfast
	31 The one about academic buoyancy
	32 The one about the Spotlight Effect
	33 The one about developing resilience
	34 The one about phones and sleep
	35 The one about pictures and words
	36 The one about teaching others
	37 The one about experts overclaiming
	38 The one about the IKEA Effect
	39 The one about parental beliefs
	40 The one about motivation
	41 The one about student daydreaming
	42 The one about going for a walk
	43 The one about stress mindsets
	44 The one about how to give better feedback
	45 The one about self-talk
	46 The one about parents and reading
	47 The one about deadlines, procrastination and choice
	48 The one about smart reputations
	49 The one about emotions and achievement
	50 The one about interacting with nature
	51 The one about stress and uncertainty
	52 The one about metacognition
	53 The one about picturing the process
	54 The one about parental warmth
	55 The one about how much we forget
	56 The one about mindset, attitude and self-esteem
	57 The one about learning styles
	58 The one about eating dinner together
	59 The one about electronic note-taking
	60 The one about the Bandwagon Effect
	61 The one about retrieval practice and stress
	62 The one about false confidence
	63 The one about reading and background noise
	64 The one about transitioning to secondary school
	65 The one about drawing for learning
	66 The one about parental involvement
	67 The one about bad decision-making
	68 The one about age and self-concept
	69 The one about self-regulated learning
	70 The one about cognitive load
	71 The one about screen time
	72 The one about parents and sleep
	73 The one about summer learning loss
	74 The one about knowing the end is near
	75 The one about interleaving and discrimination learning
	76 The one about the Peak End Effect
	77 The one about the importance of failing
Tips
	1 Tips for improving memory
	2 Tips for improving mindset, motivation and resilience
	3 Tips for improving self-regulation and metacognition
	4 Tips for students
	5 Tips for parents
	6 Tips for overcoming thinking biases
The studies