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Meta-analyses and the making of an evidence-informed profession

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. The very fact that teachers and school...

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Systematic reviews and meta-analyses – what’s all the fuss?

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...

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Where is the value in meta-analysis?

Before I trained as a teacher, I worked as a researcher, investigating the effect of phytoplankton processes in the ocean. It appeared that in...

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Comparing apples with oranges

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...

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5 Musings on the new Ofsted Inspection Framework

The Westminster Insight conference for the new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework was held on Tuesday 26 March 2019. Since the claim that Ofsted...

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A whole new world?

The educational landscape is undergoing a bit of a shift. Just a mild understatement maybe. But big changes are not exactly new in education, so...

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10 ESSENTIAL READS to improve reading comprehension

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...

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Baseline Assessment Blog

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5 Steps to make assessment work for you

"To be able to evaluate impact, we need to know where we are starting from. For this we need baseline data. From this starting point, we can evaluate...

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The Big Evidence Debate

Meta-analysis involves the aggregation of data from existing studies that share key features, in order to create a summary that reflects all the...

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Translating Evidence into Practice

In education, translating evidence into practice is a process which involves everyone, from classroom-based teachers, to school leadership teams,...

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