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Each year, the education system spends astonishing amounts of money on implementing educational initiatives which often yield only negligible impact on learners. There is a danger that time-poor educators spend too many of their precious hours...
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Your first year of teaching presents you with a wealth of challenges. How do you manage behaviour? How do you cope with the workload? How can you do...
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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...
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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...
