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Human error is an undesirable aspect of everyday life. It is often excused
on the basis that mistakes are just part of the everyday learning process.
Simply put, people make mistakes, to err is human, and people are not
perfect, except possibly…

Our original interests in the integration of diversity into the psychology curricu- lum developed along converging paths. As new teachers of psychology, we both discovered that our widely-used textbooks contained little or no scholarship on women or…

This series is aimed at research students in education and those under-
taking related professional, vocational and social research. It takes
current methodological debates seriously and offers well-informed advice
to students on how to respond to…

This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years’ research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses relating to the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers and of feedback, and…

This book is intended primarily for relatively inexperienced teachers in higher
education. Established lecturers interested in exploring recent developments in
teaching, learning and assessment will also find the book valuable. It has much…

News headlines continue to tell us that there is a crisis in education: ‘4,000
teacher jobs cannot be filled’ (Dean, 2000a), ‘Schools policy crisis as third
superhead quits’ (Carvel and Mulholland, 2000), and, ‘Poverty no excuse
for…

The second volume, Cognitive Psychology of Learning edited by H. Roediger, is comprised of 48 chapters on various aspects of cognitive ability and the underlying neuroscience. The basics of attention, working memory, forgetting, false memories,…

Volume 3, edited by H. Eichenbaum, consists of 29 chapters which represent a ‘‘progress report’’ on what we know about memory systems and their relationship to different parts of the brain. Memory Systems returns to a comparative approach of…

The final 42 chapters in Volume 4, Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Memory edited by J.D. Sweatt, represent a review of the state of the science of what we know at the systems, cell, and molecular levels on learning and memory formation, as well…

In our technologically sophisticated and media driven world, individuals are bombarded by default and by choice with more information in one day than our ancestors were exposed to in a lifetime. h ere is more information on the head of a pin…