Working Memory on BBC

Posted by Tracy Thursday, December 17th, 2009

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I was recently invited to share my research on BBC Radio. Here are some details on the programme from the BBC website:

IQ TESTING

IQ testing has long been a controversial way of measuring intelligence, but now there are claims that there’s another, more accurate method of predicting academic success: working memory, or the capacity we have to learn. Dr Tracy Alloway, whose recent experiments showed that testing working memory predicted children’s grades more accurately than traditional IQ, speaks up for working memory. LISTEN

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MM
January 9th, 2010
1:53 am

Thank-you for your interesting and clear information on “All in the Mind” recently. The programme focused on a subject which has had such far-reaching life-long consequences for my family that I would never be able to describe their extent to anyone. Working memory is involved in the organisation of almost everything we do to earn our living and its weakness is routinely attributed to lack of effort. Good luck with your work. It is much needed and full of implications for education.

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