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Further problems with the 'thinking hard' proxy for learning

Jan 11, 2017 | Category: learning

Because learning is invisible, we can only hope to measure whether students are making progress by observing proxies. Most people now seem to agree that certain activities which routinely take place i...

#Daisy Christodoulou #Robert Coe

Robert Coe's foreword for #PsychBook

Jul 19, 2016 | Category: psychology

Right. It's done. What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Psychology is off to the printers tomorrow and should be available in the next few weeks.It's always a tense time when what you've written is e...

#Robert Coe #PsychBook

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

The rise of the unscrupulous optimist

Mar 05, 2016 | Category: leadership

"Optimism, n.: The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Education is a project filled with hope. We stand, framed heroical...

#Robert Coe #College of Teaching #Roger Scruton

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

How do we know if a teacher's any good?

May 09, 2015 | Category: leadership

Obviously enough, not all teachers are equal. But how do we know which ones are any cop? Well, we just do, don't we? Everyone in a school community tends to know who's doing a decent job. But how do w...

#Graham Nuthall #Sutton Trust #Robert Coe #Eric Kalenze #Charlotte Danielson #Jack Marwood #Steve Higgins

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