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Is meta-analysis in its current state trustworthy enough to be a basis for practitioner decisions?...
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As a news editor, I developed my own 50% rule: reporters should spend as much time writing their stories as getting the stories in the first place. Journalists often race back into the newsroom with great tales to tell...
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Before entering into a broader discussion about the use of meta-analysis in school decision-making, it’s worth appreciating just how far teaching has progressed towards becoming an evidence-informed profession...
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Should we be using systematic reviews and meta-analyses as teachers and school leaders to support the decisions we make, or is that a luxury? How do they actually help?...
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Before I trained as a teacher, I worked as a researcher, investigating the effect of phytoplankton processes in the ocean...
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How do you compare apples with oranges? Or even apples with oranges with cherries with bananas with peaches?
This isn’t a joke question that has a pithy punchline...
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The Westminster Insight conference for the new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework was held on Tuesday 26 March...
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The educational landscape is undergoing a bit of a shift. Just a mild understatement maybe...
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How many of us, I wonder, in our first year of teaching came across that small child who was always reading, always carrying big thick books and invariably introduced as a ‘book worm’?...
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Meta-analysis involves the aggregation of data from existing studies that share key features, in order to create a summary that reflects all the available evidence...
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In education, translating evidence into practice is a process which involves everyone, from classroom-based teachers, to school leadership teams, local authorities and to the wider education communities...
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A good vocabulary is an important building block for helping young children to communicate effectively, but it’s also essential to school performance more widely.
