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Hi Jonas You are welcome to pick the brains of Adey and Shayer in that their work - with learners and teachers - has over two decades been shown to be regularly successful [= real gains that are durable and transferable]. My things are - inter alia - commentaries on this "success story" that for reasons that I have never been to understand is virtually a complete unknown in the US, Canada and similar far away places. Bon Voyage! cheers Les Leslie Smith Homepage Lake District http://www2.clikpic.com/ls99/ Homepage Lancaster University http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/edres/profiles/Leslie-Smith/ Adey, P. (2007). The CASE for a general factor in intelligence. In M.J. Roberts (ed.). Integrating the Mind: Domain General versus Domain Specific Processes in Higher Cognition. [pp.369-86]. Hove, UK: Psychology Press. Adey, P., Shayer, M. & Yates, C. (1989). Thinking science. London: Macmillan Shayer, M. (2008). Intelligence for education: As described by Piaget and measured by psychometrics. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 78, 1-29. Shayer, M. and Adey, P. (2002). Learning intelligence. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press. Shayer, M. Ginsburg, D., Coe, R. (2007). Thirty years on ?a large anti-Flynn effect? The Piagetian test Volume & Heaviness norms 1975?003. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 77, 25?1 Smith, L. (2005). Developmental Psychology and Education. In B. Hopkins (ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development. [pp. 487-490]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Smith, L. (in press 2009). Piaget's pedagogy. In U. Müller, J. Carpendale & L. Smith (eds.). Cambridge Companion to Piaget. New York: Cambridge University Press.