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John Hattie and the magical power of prediction
Jan 28, 2016 |
Category: research
In this post I picked up on a rather odd comment made by Professor Hattie at a recent conference:
...tests don’t tell kids about how much they’ve learnt. Kids are very, very good at predicting how wel...
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...
Old Hat(tie)? Some things you ought to know about effect sizes
Jan 24, 2014 |
Category: myths
Ever since Hattie published Visible Learning back in 2009 the Effect Size has been king. For those of you who don't know, an effect size is a mechanism for comparing the relative merits of different i...
Learning Journeys
Sep 21, 2011 |
Category: learning
Last month I wrote a post asking whether there was a point to starters. Luckily for me, Darren Mead got in touch to tell me about what he has termed Learning Journeys. Ever since I've been absolutely...
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