Ready to Learn? The Experiment

Ready to Learn? The Experiment is a major piece of education research designed to investigate the impact of factors such as diet, sleep, and exercise on children's readiness to learn.

More than 78,000 children at 682 schools took part in March 2008 in what was the largest ever experiment of its kind.

Read our research outcomes for a full report on the findings and summaries for students.

Or use our ready to learn activities designed to give a snapshot of a pupil's cognitive abilities. These have been reversioned to allow teachers to use them for their own action research in schools.

Research outcomes

Read about the research outcomes including the full final report from The Tavistock Clinic on the findings as well as summary versions, and related information about the academic research behind the experiment.

Ready to learn activities

Our ready to learn activities include the online activities which measure cognitive function for use in your own action research, science lesson plans and resources for key stages 1 to 4, and alternative paper-based activities.

Programmes

Ready to Learn? - The Results (video)

Scientists analyse the results of Ready to Learn? The Experiment

KS1 Science - Ready to Learn (video)

A lively lesson raising pupil awareness of the need for a healthy diet

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KS2 Science - Ready to Learn (video)

A useful example of a lesson encouraging pupils to think about how they learn

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KS3 Science - Ready to Learn (video)

How the topic of readiness to learn can boost pupils awareness of their own learning environments

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KS4 Science - Ready to Learn (video)

A year 10 lesson centered on improving data collection skills and judging data validity

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