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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. Prior to this, and dismayed by attacks on psychotherapy by psychologist Hans Eysenck, Glass and his...
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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...
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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...
