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The term ‘evidence-based policy’ rose to particular prominence in the early years of the New Labour administration, following the 1997 general election. At that time, the Standards Unit in the Department for Education commissioned research reviews,...
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At the 10th Annual Festival of Education, held at the beautiful Wellington College, we (as the Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring, CEM, now Cambridge...
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On Tuesday 4th June 2019 we held the first ever Big Evidence Debate. Leading educational experts Dylan Wiliam and Larry Hedges gave fascinating...
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In recent years, ‘progress’ or ‘growth’ has become a much-discussed issue in education. The terminology has often been used to mean a numerical...
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In their pursuit of a number - a neat proxy for the distance travelled between two points - schools can do some crazy stuff.
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To my mind, there was something heroic about Gene Glass’ presidential address to the 1976 American Educational Research Association annual meeting....
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Meta-analyses (like the popular Sutton Trust Tool Kit and Hattie’s Visible Learning) apparently offer a more sophisticated and orderly approach to...
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By Professor Steve Higgins Is meta-analysis in its current state trustworthy enough to be a basis for practitioner decisions? It all depends on what...
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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....
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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...
