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The field runs in three rings: the researchers who found it, the translators who made it usable, and the teachers who use it. This site links them, so a teacher reading about worked examples can go from Sweller's finding to Groshell's explanation to what it looks like in their grade band.
Each person here gets a short entry: what they are known for, where to start with their work, and which principles it supports. No contact details and no claims they haven't made. Being listed here does not mean a person endorses this site.
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John Sweller
Cognitive load theory; the worked example effect
Paul Kirschner
Why minimal guidance fails beginners; How Learning Happens (with Carl Hendrick)
Nelson Cowan
Working memory limit of about four chunks
Robert and Elizabeth Bjork
Desirable difficulties: why harder practice can mean better learning
Doug Rohrer
Interleaved and spaced math practice; the 54-class trial
Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel
The testing effect, in labs and classrooms
John Dunlosky
Rating ten study techniques by evidence
David Klahr
Direct instruction versus discovery in early science
Lynn Fuchs
Fraction trials; progress monitoring; chaired the IES math intervention guide
Robert Siegler
Fraction knowledge and later math; chaired the IES fractions guide
Linnea Ehri
Phonics and how children learn to read words
Daniel Willingham
Cognitive science for teachers; knowledge and reading
David Grissmer
The Core Knowledge lottery study
James Kim
Content literacy trials in grades 1–2 (MORE)
Philip Oreopoulos
Meta-analysis of tutoring trials
Thomas Perry
The EEF review of cognitive science in real classrooms, and its honest limits
Carl Hendrick
How Learning Happens (with Paul Kirschner); The Learning Dispatch
Defending the science of learning(opens in a new tab); Chalk & Talk ep. 22(opens in a new tab)
Zach Groshell
Just Tell Them; Progressively Incorrect podcast; Education Rickshaw
Anna Stokke
Host of Chalk & Talk; mathematics professor, University of Winnipeg
Anita Archer
Explicit instruction, modeled live
Pooja Agarwal
Powerful Teaching; RetrievalPractice.org
Patrice Bain
Retrieval practice from a middle school classroom; co-author of the IES practice guide
Doug Lemov
Teach Like a Champion; classroom routines
Greg Ashman
Cognitive load theory for teachers; Filling the Pail
Daisy Christodoulou
Myth-busting; assessment and feedback
Tom Bennett
Founder of researchED
Kris Boulton
Clear math instruction; founder of Unstoppable Learning
Brian Poncy
Math fact fluency
Amanda VanDerHeyden
Math screening and intervention
John Mighton
Founder of JUMP Math; the myth of math ability
Natalie Wexler
The Knowledge Gap; knowledge and reading
Barbara Oakley
Learning how to learn; practice before creativity