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Why assessment may tell you less than you think – Part 2
By Rob Coe In part 1 of this blog post, I posed five questions about these uses of assessments. I’m going to take these questions in reverse order.
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Why assessment may tell you less than you think – Part 1
By Rob Coe I was inspired to write this blog by reading Harry Fletcher-Wood's book ‘Responsive Teaching’. I really enjoyed the book and would...
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What should we do about meta-analysis and effect size?
By Rob Coe In part 1 of this series of blog posts, I set out some of the recent criticisms that have been made by researchers such as Wiliam, Simpson...
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Serious critiques of meta-analysis and effect size: researchED 2018
By Rob Coe Since I became a researcher in the late 1990s, I have been an advocate of using effect size and meta-analysis for summarising and...
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Evidence-Based Practice: What it is and what it isn’t
Introduced by Professor Rob Coe We are delighted to host this piece by Gary Jones, in which he draws out the parallels between guidance on the...
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Translating Evidence into Improvement: why is it so hard?
In February Schools NorthEast held their Evidence-based Excellence event, bringing together school leaders, practitioners and experts from across the...
How can teachers learn to be better teachers?
By Professor Rob Coe Download Professor Rob Coe’s presentation from the 2017 Festival of Education. We’ll update with a more detailed blog piece at...
A Vision for Enhanced Professionalism
"Teaching is far and away the most important of all professions. Teachers make more difference to more people's lives, in a way that more people feel...
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What is Worth Reading for Teachers Interested in Research?
I give a fair number of talks to groups of teachers and school leaders on the subject of connecting educational research with their practice. Often I...
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Classroom observation: it’s harder than you think
by Professor Robert Coe We’ve all done it: observed another teacher’s lesson and made a judgement about how effective the teaching was. Instinctively...