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This week, roles were flipped as Shaelynn Farnsworth and I had an opportunity to learn from John Hattie at the Visible Learning Institut...

How do you know which interventions will actually work in your school? You need to look beyond the effect size, says Jonathan Haslam I’ve learned a lot from these three numbers: +0.76, +0.11 and +0.26. They are all effect sizes from trials run by the Education Endowment Foundation. An effect size is a way of

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Discover what this study says about the how technology makes a difference for elementary learning and in what ways to best implement it.

1) The document outlines evidence from 700+ meta-analyses on influences on student achievement, identifying teaching strategies and teacher behaviors as having among the largest effects. 2) It finds that the typical effect across all studies is an effect size of 0.40, equivalent to advancing student achievement by approximately 9 months. 3) The document ranks various influences and finds that reducing disruptive behavior, providing feedback, and accelerating gifted students have among the largest positive effects on achievement, while retention, mobility between schools, and television viewing have some of the most negative effects.

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PDF | On Jan 1, 2009, I. Snook and others published Invisible Learnings: A commentary on John Hattie's book visible learning: A synthesis of over 800 metaanalyses relating to achievement | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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At the researchED conference in September 2013, Professor Robert Coe, Professor of Education at Durham University, said that John Hattie’s book, ‘Visible Learning’,  is “rid…

A blog about educational research Hattie and visible learning. Critique of Visible Learning

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Commentary from Massey University Emeritus professor of education Ivan Snook on John Hattie's Visible Learnings and effect sizes

Hattie's updated effect size list of 256 influences across all areas related to student achievement.