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How helpful is Hattie & Donoghue's model of learning? Part 1: The problem with depth

Jun 17, 2017 | Category: learning

I saw John Hattie speak recently at a conference on his latest re-imagining of his Visible Learning work. He was an excellent speaker and charming company. I was particularly flattered that he asked m...

#SOLO taxonomy #John Hattie #Deans for Impact #K Anders Ericsson #deep learning

Context isn't king

Nov 21, 2016 | Category: Featured

It's become quite fashionable recently to say that there's no best way to teach because what works depends on the context in which you teach. This is a considerable improvement on asserting that [inse...

#John Hattie #Greg Ashman #John Donlosky #Lucy Crehan

The feedback continuum: why reducing feedback helps students learn

Oct 15, 2016 | Category: learning

The effects of feedback are more complex than we often realise. While expertise and mastery is unlikely to develop without feedback it's certainly not true to say that giving feedback results in exper...

#John Hattie #feedback #Robert Bjork

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...

#John Hattie #effect sizes #George Lilley #self-reported grades

Why I like 'tick n flick'

Dec 16, 2015 | Category: Featured

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. William of Ockham Tick n flick - the practice of flicking through students' exercise books and ticking to indicate that they have been read (o...

#John Hattie #marking #workload #Greg Ashman

Whose research is it anyway?

Apr 22, 2015 | Category: Featured

The TES reports today that Professor Hattie, the crown prince of education research, isn't much keen on teachers conducting research in their classrooms. Apparently he thinks we should leave education...

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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

Are we fetishising marking?

Nov 14, 2014 | Category: learning

When you make something a fetish, ashes and dusts will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes!Mehmet Murat ildan Last night I innocently posted...

#John Hattie #homework #marking #Robert Bjork #EEF #Sunk Cost Fallacy

What does John Hattie think about education?

Aug 22, 2014 | Category: Featured

If you don't yet know, BBC Radio 4 have lined up a series of 8 interviews with the leading lights of the education world. In the second programme of the series, Sarah Montague interviews professor Joh...

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The problem with SatNavs, or how feedback can impede learning

Jul 06, 2014 | Category: learning

I'm not an especially good driver, but I'm a truly terrible navigator. This used to mean that I would get lost. A lot. When I first moved to Bristol in 2001 I bought an A-Z of the city and when drivin...

#John Hattie #feedback #Robert Bjork #SatNav