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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

What's the difference between character and personality?

Jan 25, 2016 | Category: Featured

The recent Sutton Trust report on character education, A Winning Personality, concludes that extroversion correlates strongly with career success. It recommends that schools focus their efforts on imp...

#Sutton Trust #Annie Murphy Paul #character #Judith RIch Harris #Jubilee Centre #personality

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

Teacher appraisal and the fundamental attribution error

Nov 09, 2014 | Category: leadership

As favour and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. Jean de La Bruyère You know that lad in Year 9 who gives you constant...

#Sutton Trust #appraisal #fundamental attribution error

How not to improve a school

Apr 21, 2012 | Category: leadership

Everyone agrees that 'lasting and sustaining improvement in student outcomes' is a good thing and there's little doubt that we should also seek to narrow the gap in achievement between different group...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Ben Levin #school improvement #Sutton Trust