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- Translating the School Curriculum – The Confident Teacher March 25, 2023
- In defence of accountability – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 19, 2023
- Getting Reading Fluency Right – The Confident Teacher March 11, 2023
- Absence from school on Fridays – Education Datalab blog March 8, 2023
- Attendance of disadvantaged pupils on World Book Day – Education Datalab blog March 7, 2023
- 10 Tips for Using Revision Guides – The Confident Teacher March 4, 2023
- What will be the impact of extending universal free school meals in London? – Education Datalab blog March 1, 2023
- Are Ofsted inspections helpful for choosing secondary schools? – Education Datalab blog February 28, 2023
- OAT English curriculum project – David Didau: The Learning Spy February 26, 2023
- Learn to write Like an American President – The Confident Teacher February 26, 2023
- Absence in the first half of Spring Term – Education Datalab blog February 22, 2023
- 5 Free Research Reads On… Retrieval Practice – The Confident Teacher February 18, 2023
- What is the Problem with ‘Skills’ in Schools? – The Confident Teacher February 11, 2023
- What is persistent absence measuring (and does it need to change)? – Education Datalab blog February 9, 2023
- By how much does attainment vary from term to term among pupils in primary schools? – Education Datalab blog February 8, 2023
- Pupil attendance during teacher strikes – Education Datalab blog February 6, 2023
- Adaptive Teaching and Vocabulary Instruction – The Confident Teacher February 4, 2023
- How do inspector characteristics link to short school inspection outcomes of primary schools? – Education Datalab blog February 2, 2023
- What is the joint impact of all the characteristics of Ofsted inspectors that we examine? – Education Datalab blog February 2, 2023
- The relationship between Ofsted judgements and inspection team size – Education Datalab blog February 2, 2023
- How do Ofsted inspection judgements vary between OIs and HMIs? – Education Datalab blog February 2, 2023
- Do Ofsted inspection outcomes differ between male and female inspectors? – Education Datalab blog February 2, 2023
- How does KS5 subject choice vary by gender and prior attainment? – Education Datalab blog January 31, 2023
- 5 Free Research Reads On… The Primary to Secondary School Transition – The Confident Teacher January 28, 2023
- The relationship between Progress 8 and inspection outcomes – Education Datalab blog January 27, 2023
- Has peak PISA passed? A look at the attention results from international assessments receive – Education Datalab blog January 27, 2023
- Could there be demand for more post-16 maths? – Education Datalab blog January 25, 2023
- Which subjects do high attaining pupils go on to study at Key Stage 5? – Education Datalab blog January 24, 2023
- The Problem with ‘Just Google It’ – The Confident Teacher January 22, 2023
- 5 Free Research Reads on…Teacher Professional Development – The Confident Teacher January 21, 2023
- 5 Free Research Reads On… Teaching Spelling – The Confident Teacher January 14, 2023
- What happens to permanently excluded pupils? – Education Datalab blog January 10, 2023
- 7 Helpful Vocabulary Websites – The Confident Teacher January 7, 2023
- The long(er)-term impact of long-term disadvantage at school – Education Datalab blog January 4, 2023
- Autumn term absence round-up – Education Datalab blog December 15, 2022
- How much does prior attainment in English and maths vary by Key Stage 5 subject choice? – Education Datalab blog December 7, 2022
- Weekday attendance analysis: a new report for schools – Education Datalab blog December 6, 2022
- Scurvy Seadogs and Using Research Evidence – The Confident Teacher December 3, 2022
- Previously outstanding secondary schools – Education Datalab blog November 22, 2022
- 10 Creative Ways to Teach Vocabulary – The Confident Teacher November 19, 2022
- Special schools and academisation – Education Datalab blog November 16, 2022
- Understanding what makes some schools stressful places to work – Education Datalab blog November 15, 2022
- A quick overview of FFT estimates for secondary schools – Education Datalab blog November 11, 2022
- A quick overview of FFT estimates for primary schools – Education Datalab blog November 11, 2022
- The relationship between schools’ Progress 8 scores and the number of qualifications their pupils enter – Education Datalab blog November 8, 2022
- The rise of STEAM – Education Datalab blog November 7, 2022
- The Problem with Teaching Sophisticated Vocabulary – The Confident Teacher November 5, 2022
- Ten things we’ve learned about teachers’ anxiety about work during the pandemic – Education Datalab blog November 3, 2022
- The relationship between month of birth, exclusions and identification of special educational needs – Education Datalab blog November 2, 2022
- Absence in the first half term of 2022/23 – Education Datalab blog November 1, 2022
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Category Archives: Education Research
What type of learning is most natural?
Which of these learning situations strikes you as the most natural, the most authentic? 1) A child learns to play a video game by exploring it on his own. 2) A child learns to play a video game by watching … Continue reading
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Teaching History Then and Now
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Suppose you could find someone who taught history in three different high schools in two cities between the 1950s through the early 1970s. Suppose further that this person had…
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Statistical Data and the Education Debate Part 2: Why we can reach conclusions from limited data.
Originally posted on Scenes From The Battleground:
I have brought this post forward as I have just seen a number of people react to this OFSTED report by making some of the errors described here. As I said last time, people often…
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Statistical Data and the Education Debate Part 1: Effect and Cause
Originally posted on Scenes From The Battleground:
There is a lot of debate over what counts as evidence in education and I have barely begun to read up on the topic, but there are a few errors that I keep…
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Teacher Proof: Why Educational Research doesn’t always mean what it claims, and what you can do.
It’s been a long time coming. Since I started teaching, I knew there was something suspicious about what I was being told worked in classrooms, and what actually happened. It started in teacher training, as well-meaning lecturers and reading lists … Continue reading
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Storify: Make science tell a story
Elsewhere I have written about the potential power of narrative to help students understand and remember complex subject matter (Willingham, 2004 ; 2009). Now a new study ( Arya & Maul, 2012 )… Continued in Storify: Make science tell a … Continue reading
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