Meta-analysis: Don’t do it or Do it more carefully?
Meta-analyses (like the popular Sutton Trust Tool Kit and Hattie’s Visible Learning) apparently...
Is meta-analysis the best we can do?
By Professor Steve Higgins
Is meta-analysis in its current state trustworthy enough to be a...
The Big Evidence Debate: Introducing the 50% rule
As a news editor, I developed my own 50% rule: reporters should spend as much time writing their...
Meta-analyses and the making of an evidence-informed profession
Before entering into a broader discussion about the use of meta-analysis in school...
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...
Where is the value in meta-analysis?
Before I trained as a teacher, I worked as a researcher, investigating the effect of...
Comparing apples with oranges
How do you compare apples with oranges? Or even apples with oranges with cherries with bananas...
5 Musings on the new Ofsted Inspection Framework
The Westminster Insight conference for the new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework was...
A whole new world?
The educational landscape is undergoing a bit of a shift. Just a mild understatement maybe.
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...