Teachers -> The Southampton Summer Statistics School (SSSS) (9-11 July 2025) is a free, three-day event designed to help professionals, academics and doctoral students from any organisation strengthen their quantitative analysis skills. www.eventbrite.com/e/southampto...

Phenomenal. High points Damaris and Hymn of the Haar. New album work sounds very good. Technical hitches a bit annoying.

Very excited to see Patrick Wolf soon.

This was phenomenal. Great voice, great variety in guitar playing, great lyrics. I channeled my George Boomsma in "two ships passing". I hope you get your narrowboat soon @KatherinePriddy

ristol is a very nice city. Here for @KatherinePriddy - Bristol Folk Festival

I think it's strange that local actions in Eastleigh are postponed for a year because of "devolution and local government reorganisation".

At the fourth Festival of Open Research at @unisouthampton #ukrn - speakers in the morning session were Gavin Buckingham from Exeter and Simon Kolstoe from Portsmouth.

No #AERA2025 for me but check out Jiayi Cen on 'Toward Defining Creative Processes in Minecraft by Analysing Timesync Comments'. Tomorrow Thu, April 24, 9:50 to 11:20am MDT, The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 710.

Excited to see @katherinepriddy.bsky.social on 3 May at the Bristol Folk Festival. Hope she will do Wolf as well, one of the most beautiful songs of the last decade. youtu.be/Y9FqJWgoWgQ?...

I'm in Japan for the EJEME project, which works on co-designing digital mathematics books.

www.tes.com/magazine/tea... a very interesting article by Professor @cbokhove.bsky.social on @tesmagazine.bsky.social

🌍 ‘International comparisons can only really be a starting point of discussions…’ @cbokhove.bsky.social says learning from other countries' education systems has to involve seeing what’s really happening inside their classrooms

Instats has an incredible set of statistics courses. Recently this free MPlus seminar series by Muthen, e.g. Using Mplus for Dynamic SEM instats.org/seminar/usin...

Excited to go to Japan on Saturday for a project on digital mathematics books.

Last night got tickets for the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo. 🙌

I'm addicted to car rebuild channels now.

I've always been surprised that school inspection in England is so visible. In my opinion, you should only really notice them locally when a school 'falls through the bottom' one way or another (this does sometimes create local media attention).

📊 'Reliability is a single point of failure for inspection' @cbokhove.bsky.social and @drsamsims.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/report-card-...

Is it helpful to think about Cognitive Load Theory as a heuristic? This was just one question from our discussion with @dylanwiliam.bsky.social, @olicav.bsky.social, @drchendrick.bsky.social, and @cbokhove.bsky.social, which is available in full at the link in the reply. youtu.be/vOgrnJZiXho

Cracking piece from @cbokhove.bsky.social and @johnjerrim.bsky.social on the fundamental issue at the heart of new Ofsted report cards - grade reliability schoolsweek.co.uk/report-card-...

"We can spend months discussing the detail of the new framework. But unless the judgments inspectors produce are sufficiently reliable, it will all be for nought." 100% agree with @cbokhove.bsky.social, John Jerrim and @drsamsims.bsky.social. This won't go away. schoolsweek.co.uk/report-card-...

Conversations are more helpful when they're more reflective and less dichotomous. Thanks to @dylanwiliam.bsky.social, @olicav.bsky.social, @drchendrick.bsky.social, & @cbokhove.bsky.social for joining me for this lovely chat on Cognitive Load Theory! wegrowteachers.com/cognitive-lo...

Thank you to @cbokhove.bsky.social for running our Introduction to Computational Research Methods course this week. Pleased to hear it was fun.

I think a lot about this @cbokhove.bsky.social diagram always (like multiple times a day...) But especially when it comes to AI stuff.—And I'm MOSTLY AI AGNOSTIC! (...but it's often good when we use it correctly)

Teachers who want to be truly ‘evidence-informed’ need to treat all research equally, avoiding bias in favour of the studies that they like, says @cbokhove.bsky.social

"it does become an issue when people want to signal how “evidence-informed” they are, but apply different standards to the evidence selected" A challenge to the evidence standards you hold yourself to from @cbokhove.bsky.social this morning

On twitter I always reacted to what I saw on my timeline, and mainly when I felt I had something to contribute. So, I would not often be the 51st to say learning styles sucked. But I would be someone who would be critical about hyperbole re the 'science of learning'.

I remember when asking Dweck about her mindset theory invited comments that you could hardly get an objective view from someone who was so invested in the theory. So, why would we only ask a view on the 'science of learning' from the most invested? It reeks of new gatekeeping.

Looking on Facebook, linkedin, X, BlueSky... Many of them have a lot of signalling of being 'evidence-informed' through hyperbole and misrepresentation of evidence. Often it goes something like the diagram...

#MissingYou was incredibly bad

The reason why the values for 'load' are so notable is that the theory itself argued biologically primary knowledge is 'easy' to acquire (low load) and biologically secondary is 'hard' to acquire (high load). They did that here: statistical difference but is the binary category really distinctive?

This is what I expected to have been studied much more, before whole theories put all their money on the distinction -> Primary vs. secondary knowledge contents in reasoning: Motivated and efficient vs. overburdened - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My talks about 'this is the new myth' tried to warn against creation of new myths while combatting myths. One of the most pervasive 'new' myths is the idea that *only* success leads to motivation. Unf it has traction in popular edubooks. The relationship between success&motivation is bidirectional.

Have a great 2025!

Baking oliebollen with Anyma on loud.

Phew, it took ages to get this published, but article about classroom experiment w/ seminal app finally has a place. To appear soon.

It's a nice mug. But the maths...

you have to watch this - just perfect for a last-minute christmas gift

Almost every time I see education pieces correcting other pieces for not being 'evidence-informed', I think they demonstrate limited, and one-sided evidence.

The latest Timss results showed a quite strong performance from England in maths – but if you look beyond the headline scores, you'll see a worrying trend of students feeling alienated from the subject, writes @cbokhove.bsky.social

I really am not someone for hyperbole, but this collaboration is one of my favourites, and it has led to one of the most comprehensive descriptions of mathematics education in Chinese primary schools that I know of.

‘Master Mathematics Teachers’ is an open access eBook! THANKS to Zhenzhen Miao and David Reynolds for the collaboration. Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton for making it openly accessible. Download the OA ebook from www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

Expert Zhenzhen Miao explores the remarkably successful workings of Chinese ‘master teachers’ and finds simple approaches that can be applied in classrooms anywhere. It has a link to the open access book we wrote on the subject. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Debut album by Vampire Weekend is just perfect. Stoked to hopefully see them in August at Victorious.

Who isn't doing "something with AI"?

This remains the greatest parody ever. In history.

If countries, schools, universities do well in rankings they love to showcase it. If it inspires you to do better, fine,but as a way to improve an education system they aren't very useful, as we can't all be in the top decile....

Sinterklaas

Good resource.