Improving learning through cognitive intervention

published:  June 2001

For this TLA research summary we selected, appraised and summarised a research and development study which has given teachers real insights into raising standards through teaching thinking skills. The study summarised here is widely known as ‘CASE’ (Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education).

The questions have been devised to bring out those aspects of the study we think are most useful to teachers. We have also included examples from other studies to illustrate the key characteristics of this work.

Adey, Philip and Michael Shayer. Really Raising Standards: Cognitive Intervention and Academic Achievement. London: Routledge, 1994.