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Can we improve school interviews? Part 2: Intuition vs. statistical prediction

May 10, 2017 | Category: psychology

In Part 1 I reviewed some of the research around the best way to recruit and how this might apply to school recruitment. One of the suggestions I made was that schools should "design an interview form...

#Sutton Trust #Daniel Kahneman #Interviews #Paul Meehl

Can we improve school interviews? Part 1: A brief review of the research

May 09, 2017 | Category: leadership

Recruitment for most employers is straightforward: you advertise, read through applications, invite the people you like in for an interview, think about it for a bit and then enter into negotiations w...

#lesson observation #Daniel Kahneman #Interviews #IQ

On gimmicks

Oct 02, 2016 | Category: learning

What is a gimmick? The dictionary defines it as "a trick or device intended to attract attention, publicity, or trade." So, putting a cartoon tiger on a packet of breakfast cereal in order to attract...

#Daniel Willingham #cultural capital #Daniel Kahneman #opportunity cost #gimmicks #Rory Sutherland

Go Compare!

Sep 09, 2016 | Category: assessment

Another one from Teach Secondary, this one from their assessment special. This time it's an over view of Comparative Judgement.Human beings are exceptionally poor at judging the quality of a thing on...

#Daniel Kahneman #Donald Laming #comparative judgement

We don't know what we don't know: the uses of humility

Nov 05, 2015 | Category: leadership

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. George Arliss In my last post I challenged the widely-held belief that teachers' judgements are g...

#Daniel Kahneman #Gary Klein #intuition

Why teacher assessment is less fair than standardised testing

Nov 04, 2015 | Category: assessment

Tests Guns don't kill people, rappers do Goldie Lookin Chain I spent the day yesterday at the Department for Education thinking about how best to cut down on the "unnecessary workload" associated with...

#Daisy Christodolou #Robert Coe #Daniel Kahneman #Michael Rosen

Five techniques for overcoming overconfidence and improving decision-making

Nov 03, 2015 | Category: leadership

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. Bertrand Russell Every s...

#Daniel Kahneman #Gary Klein

"Works for me!" The problem with teachers' judgement

Oct 11, 2015 | Category: leadership

It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own. Alexander Pope One of the difficulties inherent in challenging teachers' judgments is that when those...

#Daniel Kahneman #intelligent accountability

Teaching for independence: thinking, memory & mastery

Jul 02, 2014 | Category: learning

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to thin...

#Daniel Wilingham #independent learning #Robert Coe #Daniel Kahneman #Kirschner #Sweller & Clark

Squaring the circle: can learning be easy and hard?

May 11, 2014 | Category: learning

Regular readers will know I've been ploughing a furrow on this question for quite a while now. Last June I synthesised my thinking in this post: Deliberately difficult – why it’s better to make learni...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #Robert Bjork #Kris Boulton #Robert Coe #Annie Murphy Paul #Daniel Kahneman