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Noncognitive skills in education: The interplay between genes, environments and development
22 November 2023, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Join this event to hear Margherita Malanchini discuss the important role that noncognitive skills play in academic development.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Greta Morando
Characteristics such as personality, motivation and socioemotional competencies have been found to account for academic achievement beyond cognitive abilities and have been broadly described as noncognitive skills. Genetic research has shown that noncognitive skills are moderately heritable and that they are genetically correlated with educational success.
In this seminar, Margherita will look at how a holistic view of education, one that considers both cognitive and noncognitive skills and their biological and environmental underpinnings, is a fundamental step for moving towards a more inclusive and evidence-based model of education.
This event will be particularly useful for academics and policymakers.
Please note this is a hybrid event and can be joined either in-person or online.
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About the Speaker
Margherita Malanchini
Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Queen Mary University of London
Her research seeks to understand why we all differ so widely in our abilities to learn, reason, plan and solve problems.
She focuses on investigating psychosocial and biological pathways that lead to individual differences in cognition, development, and education. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the causes, correlates and life-long consequences of individual differences in cognitive development and learning.