Teaching and Learning: The Essential Readings

1. Attaining Excellence Through Deliberate Practice: Insights from the Study of Expert Performance. (K. A. Ericsson).

2. Rhyme, Language and Children's Readering. (P. Bryant, M. Maclean and L. Bradley).

3. The Rebirth of Children's Learning. (R. Siegler).

4. Candy Selling and Math Learning. (G. B. Saxe).

5. Understanding Academic Performance at University. (N. J. Entwistle).

Part II Teaching.

6. On Becoming a Tutor: Toward an Ontogenetic Model. (D. Wood, H. Wood, S. Ainsworth and C. O'Malley).

7. Teacher Expectation: Implications for School Improvement. (C. Rogers).

8. An Exploration of Long-Term Far-Transfer Effects Following an Extended Intervention Program in the High School Science Curriculum. (P. Adey and M. Shayer).

9. Reconstructing Context: the Conventionalization of Classroom Knowledge. (D. Edwards and N. Mercer).

10. The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture. (L. A. Shepard).

Index.