Visible learning
a synthesis of meta-analyses relating to achievement
by John Hattie · first published 2008
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Synthesizes a large body of meta-analyses to show which teaching influences have the largest effects on learning; useful as an overview for educators and anyone wanting to see what research says works in schools.
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…own local in-person math classes about Khan Academy before the first day of each new term. A good classroom teacher, who knows the latest research on educational effectiveness, http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Learning-Synthesis-Meta-Analys... will take care to form a community of shared curiosity and reality checks on one another's thinking while teaching. There is an abundance of research on effective mathematics…
on “Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time” ↗…Nonetheless, some suggestions: there will be a lot of topic specific research you should probably look at. In addition there is general research on pedagogy. A good starting point is probably https://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effec... This shows: different teaching techniques can have huge effects on outcomes, and there are a lot of different effective techniques you can incorporate. There is…
on “What I would do differently if I was learning to program again” ↗Hattie's effect size list is a good place to start if you're interested in what teaching practices leads to better learning results: https://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effec... I few others I'd recommend: - How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles by Ambrose, Bridges, DiPietro, Lovett, & Norman - How People Learn by Bransford,…
on “Can good teaching be taught?” ↗The evidence suggests that . . . Citation, please? I'm reading a very good book about evidence for best practice in education, http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Learning-Synthesis-Meta-Analys... recommended to me by a candidate in the current school board race in my school district, and I'd like to check what the research says with any source you recommend. Do you have…
on “Khan Academy Gets 5 Million to Expand Faculty & Platform & to Build a School” ↗…helping my students achieve a deeper learning - an awareness of how concepts are connected and how they link to the lives of my students. If you happen to have access to an academic library, look at Visible Learning by John Hattie. Plenty of evidence (the book is an attempt to synthesize the findings of many hundreds of studies). http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2010/03/01/john-hattie-visible-l... Having said that,…
on “Nobody's Going to Help You, and That's Awesome” ↗…effect of parenting. To understand the tracking and peer group, just pick up a book that summarizes all the most important research on education. Two good ones are Equality and Achievement by Riordan, and Visible Learning by John Hattie.
on “American Education is failing black males. Here’s how we fix it.” ↗Also please take a look at the research of John Hattie whose meta study Visible Learning analyzes what actually works in a school setting: http://visible-learning.org/ His Hattie Ranking might change the way you view education: http://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effect...
on “How to retain more of what you read” ↗It looks like that's just about one study. If you want an overview of the research, grab a copy of Riordan's book Equality and Achievement, or else Hattie's book Visible Learning.
on “A Student-Data Collector Drops Out” ↗…paying teachers more results in higher pupil performance. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3k0nz There have been hundreds of studies of educational interventions over the years, http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Learning-Synthesis-Meta-Analys... and many thoughtful international comparisons of teaching practice, http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Gap-Improving-Education-Class... http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...…
on “Paying teachers more results in higher pupil performance” ↗I can't remember which of my Facebook friends the other day recommended this article, but I'm glad I read it. I read John Hattie's book Visible Learning a few years ago on the recommendation of a school board candidate (who succeeded in getting elected) in my local public school district. As an observer of my children's learning in the local public high…
on “Big Ideas That Don't Work in Education” ↗We now know that tech isn't an high impact factor when it comes to learning quality. This is based on John Hattie's profound research work covering 1200 meta studies: https://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effec...
on “Walmart deploys Oculus Go headsets to train its employees” ↗Most of the achievement gap actually comes from parenting, not schools. John Hattie in his book Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Learning-Synthesis-Meta-Analys... reviews a lot of research studies from a lot of countries and suggests…
on “The Tyranny of Meritocracy” ↗…in classes with much older students (accelerating a gifted student is the most effective positive intervention that can be taken in K-12 education according to Hattie's recent review of meta-analyses, Visible Learning, and nothing else is close). It pushes them academically, and more often than not, helps them socialize, because they learn how older kids interact before internalizing too many abnormal frames and social…
on “Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart” ↗The extensive research by John Hattie shows that reduced class sizes has a small but positive effect on student achievement but relative to other factors, it is very inefficient: http://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effect... One explanation to reduced class sizes not having a larger effect is that teachers, given smaller classes, rarely change their practice to optimize for the new…
on “Should States Spend Billions to Reduce Class Sizes?” ↗Visible Learning, by John Hattie http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Learning-Synthesis-Meta-Analys... Teaching as Leadership, by Teach for America http://www.teachingasleadership.org/ http://www.amazon.com/Teaching-As-Leadership-Effective-Achie...…
on “Ask HN: What are you reading? What've you read lately?” ↗