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Where now for school improvement?

Jul 03, 2016 | Category: Featured

In the past, school improvement was easy. You could push pupils into taking BTECs or Diplomas (sometimes with 100% coursework) equivalent to multiple GCSEs; you could organise your curriculum to allow...

#Tom Sherrington #Robert Coe #Amanda Spielman #Jack Marwoood

Robert Coe on #WrongBook

May 13, 2015 | Category: Featured

Robert Coe, Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at Durham University burst into my consciousness two years ago with his vigorous critique of the lack of evidence underpinning lesson o...

#Robert Coe #What If Everything You Knew About Teaching Was Wrong?

What might be a good proxy for learning?

Mar 22, 2015 | Category: Featured

Professor Rob Coe's speech, From Evidence to Great Teaching, at the ASCL conference last Friday seemed to generate quite a bit of energy on Twitter, as did Carl Hendrick's post on engagement. Coe has...

#performance #Robert Coe #poor proxies

The Unit of Education

Jan 08, 2015 | Category: Featured

If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.Lord Kelvin A lot of education research is an attempt to measure the effects of teaching (or teachers) on learning (or pupils.) But is this actually pos...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #effect sizes #Robert Coe #research #Bloom

Do you need a research champion in your school?

Sep 08, 2014 | Category: Featured

If you haven't read this great article by Carl Hendricks, Director of Research at Wellington College, on the need for 'research champions in schools, you should. In it Hendricks persuasively sets out...

#Tom Sherrington #Robert Coe #Carl Hendricks

What if we stopped making the same mistakes?

Feb 11, 2014 | Category: Featured

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. Henry Ford Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. Fake Einstein quote How many of...

#Ofsted #Alex Quigley #Robert Coe #Lesson Study

Still grading lessons? A triumph of experience over hope

Feb 08, 2014 | Category: Featured

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon To paraphrase Rob Coe's seminal research, yesterday's National Teacher Enquiry Network (NTEN) conference at KEGS in Chelmsford was a tri...

#Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #lesson observation #Robert Coe #Liam Collins #NTEN

Questions that matter: method vs practice

Feb 04, 2014 | Category: Featured

We talk a lot these days about pedagogy, but what do we actually mean? Obviously, we know what the dictionary definition is: the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or t...

#Robert Coe #Laura McInerney #Barry Smith