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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 our world than the messy reality of day to day practice. So do similar approaches, like Best Evidence...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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...
