This has been a great year for education research. I thought it could be fun to review some of what has come across my own limited radar over the course of 2023.

The method I used to create this wrap-up was to go back through my Twitter timeline starting in January, and pull all research related tweets into a doc. I then began sorting those by theme and ended up with several high-level buckets, with further sub-themes within and across those buckets. Note that I didn’t also go through my Mastodon nor Bluesky feeds, as this was time-consuming enough!

The rough big ticket research items I ended up with were:

• Multilinguals and multilingualism
• Reading
• Morphology
• The influence of physical or cultural environment
• The content of teaching and learning
• The precedence of academic skills over soft skills
• Brain research and Artificial Neural Networks