Oakfield School is reviewing how it supports independent revision.
After receiving a disappointing French vocabulary score, Noor tells her teacher that she used self-testing. The teacher replies, “Perhaps languages are simply not one of your strengths.”
For music revision on identifying instruments by sound, pupils answer a questionnaire about whether they prefer learning by looking, listening or moving. The school then permits each pupil to use only one resource: photographs of the instruments, recordings of the instruments or actions showing how the instruments are played.
Using Dweck's mindset theory, explain how Noor's teacher should change the feedback.
Using Willingham's theory, explain one change the school should make to the music revision and why.
27 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 2.3 Application: The changing role of education, covering 2.3.1 Applying Piaget's ideas to education and 2.3.2 Applying learning theories to education. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.