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The Dunedin Study is one that has been referred to a lot throughout the ELL project, it is a study that followed approximately 1000 people born in the same year from birth through to about age 32. The study looked at the role of executive function in look at people's outcomes
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This article on MindShift look at kids developing their thinking through two activities. There are videos on the "Which One Doesn't Belong" tasks and another video on "Same or Different" tasks. Some good videos demonstrating how the teacher helps to draw out the thinking
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This radio interview for BBC Radio 4 was part of a series called "The Educators". If you have never heard of the work of Jo Boaler before this interview is a good place to start thinking about the ideas she has in relation to mathematics education.
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This article on MindShift looks at the way students make sense of mathematical ideas. Particularly it looks at the role of errors as a key component of learning and sense making.
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This article on Mindshift also looks at the role of mistakes in learning and how to use growth mindset thinking in normalising mistake making in the classroom. There is a video associated with the article
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