by admin | 10 Dec, 2012 | December 2012, Newsletter
Welcome to the National Teacher Enquiry Network December end of term newsletter. In this issue: Making a difference: a practical approach to evaluating the impact of professional development. Vivienne Porritt, Assistant Director of School Partnerships, Institute of...
by admin | 10 Dec, 2012 | Advice, Data, December 2012, Newsletter
This article first appeared in the BETT 2013 Learning Leaders magazine. It is one of the articles in our National Teacher Enquiry Network December end of term newsletter (sign up here). When classroom teachers feel that they ‘own’ the assessment data about their...
by admin | 10 Dec, 2012 | Advice, December 2012, Newsletter
This article originally appeared in the Teacher Development Trust’s regular CPD column in SecEd on the 27th of November 2012. It is one of the articles in our National Teacher Enquiry Network December end of term newsletter (sign up here). NQTs must ‘learn how...
by admin | 10 Dec, 2012 | Advice, December 2012, Newsletter
Making a difference: a practical approach to evaluating the impact of professional development This blog was written by Vivienne Porritt (@LCLL_Director), Assistant Director for School Partnerships at the Institute of Education (IOE). It is one of the articles in...
by david.weston | 26 Nov, 2012 | Data, December 2012, Newsletter, Research
“Effect Size” is the new magic number that, it seems, will solve all of our education problems. Ideas with big effect sizes are apparently the new panaceas, and small effect size ideas are panned. However, misuse and misunderstanding of this statistic is...
by admin | 4 Nov, 2012 | December 2012, Newsletter, Research, Teachers
This is one of the articles in our National Teacher Enquiry Network December end of term newsletter (sign up here). Not a day goes by without an educational commentator lamenting the lack of evidence-based thinking, policy or practice in our school system. If only...