Cognitive psychology is playing an ever increasing role in both education and sport. But psychological terms often sound complicated, which can put
Put simply, metacognition is the ability to critically analyse and monitor the way we think. As the concept of metacognition has grown in popularity
7th November 2018 marked a very exciting day for InnerDrive, as we had the pleasure of hosting our very own Growth Mindset conference in
As the great Basketball coach John Wooden once said: “Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way”.
Students
Let’s start with a quick experiment. When I say the word ‘teenager’ to you, what three words come to mind?
Recently researchers ran a similar
There is an old adage that ‘praise is like penicillin…it must not be administered haphazardly’. Done well, it can help boost motivation and
More and more schools are starting to talk about the power of both retrieval practice and metacognition. But what actually are they, how do they
When it comes to revision, many students start out with high levels of motivation and good intentions. But these good intentions often don’t
